Finance
Learn about the finance academic area at Darden, its faculty and its work.
Finance provides insights into the challenges senior managers face in creating value for shareholders and other stakeholders in the firm by focusing on the prudent investment of the firm's capital and the selection of financial policies in support of the firm's long-term strategy.
The study of finance develops the key skill of valuation — of projects, securities, whole firms and of the incremental effect of new policies.
In support of this goal, students master tools and concepts in the structure of capital markets, cost of capital, financial analysis and forecasting, working capital management, capital budgeting, resource allocation, dividend policy, long-term debt policy, selection of specific financial tactics and corporate restructuring.
Faculty
Robert F. Bruner
University Professor, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Dean Emeritus of the Darden School of Business
Senior Fellow of the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Susan Chaplinsky
Tipton R. Snavely Professor of Business Administration
Robert M. Conroy
J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Kenneth M. Eades
Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Richard B. Evans
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Donald McLean Wilkinson Research Chair in Business Administration
Robert S. Harris
C. Stewart Sheppard Professor of Business Administration
Marc L. Lipson
Robert F. Vandell Professor of Business Administration
Elena Loutskina
Professor of Business Administration
Peter M. Grant II Bicentennial Foundation Chair in Business Administration
Pedro Matos
John G. Macfarlane Family Chair and Professor of Business Administration
Academic Director of Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management
Michael J. Schill
Sponsors Professor of Business Administration
William W. Sihler
Ronald Edward Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration Emeritus
Davide Tomio
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
