The Department of Finance and the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance program would like to invite you to a seminar by Professor Jarrad Harford from University of Washington. He is the Paul Pigott–PACCAR Professor of Finance at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, where he recently completed a 12-year term as Department Chair.

He earned his Ph.D. in finance with a minor in organizations and markets at the University of Rochester, and his B.S. in finance at the Pennsylvania State University. His teaching focuses on core finance and acquisition analysis. Jarrad has won 17 teaching awards across various levels, but primarily in the undergraduate program, where he focuses his teaching.

Jarrad currently serves as a managing editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. In the past, he has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Corporate Finance. Jarrad’s primary research areas are mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and payout policy, and he has published more than 40 papers on these topics in top finance journals. Jarrad has co-authored Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, with Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo, now in its 6th edition (Pearson).