The Amsterdam MBA
Faculty
Faculty
Drawing on a faculty with wide international experience in both international business and academia, courses are offered introducing students to underlying theory, best practice and recent developments in international business. The notes below identify some of the UvA academics with international reputation who are expected to teach on the programme during 2011/2112.
Ans Kolk - Professor of Sustainable Management
Ans Kolk is Professor of Sustainable Management and Research Director of the Amsterdam graduate Business School. Her areas of research, teaching and publications are in corporate social responsibility and environmental management, especially in relation to the strategy and management of international business firms. She has been involved in many international projects on strategy, organisation and disclosure related to social and environmental issues, in cooperation with different private, public and civil society organisations (including the KPMG international surveys of environmental/ sustainability reporting in 1998/1999, 2001/2002 and 2004/2005). Ans has published in a range of international journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, Harvard Business Review, and many others. She is author of Economics of Environmental Management (Financial Times Prentice Hall) and one of the founders of the Expert Centre for Sustainable Business and Development Cooperation.
Arnoud Boot - Professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets
Arnoud Boot is Professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam and advisor to the Riksbanken (Central Bank of Sweden). He is also Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and at the Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan. Prior to his current positions, he was on the faculty of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, and during 2000-2001 he was a partner in the Finance and Strategy Practice at McKinsey & Co. His publications have appeared in major academic journals, such as the Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, Economic Journal and the International Economic Review.
In addition to his academic activities, professor Boot is consultant to several financial institutions and corporations. His consultancy activities concern the regulation and strategic positioning of financial institutions, corporate finance and governance issues, and corporate financial structure and ownership decisions. For these activities, he has also established the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance, a "think tank" designed to improve the interaction between theory and practice.
Rajkamal Iyer - Assistant Professor of Finance
He obtained his PhD from INSEAD and wrote his dissertation on Financial Intermediation. His main areas of interest are banking, international finance and political economy. His research primarily focuses on the transmission of a crisis and optimal regulatory policies to minimise the contagion. He has published several pieces on regulatory structures in the banking industry. Prior to his PhD, he obtained a Masters degree in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics. He has also worked in the area of risk management.
Joost Driessen - Professor of Financial Derivatives
Joost Driessen is Professor of Financial Derivatives at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He obtained his Ph.D. at Tilburg University, and in 2000 he visited the University of Chicago. He has performed consulting projects on derivatives and risk management for several large Dutch banks. His current research interests are in asset pricing and financial econometrics, in particular the modelling of the term structure of interest rates, the pricing of interest rate derivatives, and credit risk.
Joseph A. McCahery - Professor of Corporate Governance and Business Innovation
Joseph A. McCahery is Professor of Corporate Governance and Business Innovation. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Corporate Governance and Accountability, George Washington University and Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) in Brussels. In addition Joe is the Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at Brussels University (ULB). He serves on the boards of several leading academic journals. Professor McCahery studied for his PhD in Law at Warwick University, where he taught until 1997. He has written widely on banking and securities law, corporate law, corporate governance, the political economy of federalism, and taxation. His publications have appeared in major academic journals, such as the Journal of Corporation Law, Georgetown Law Journal, and Journal of Corporate Law Studies. In addition to his academic activities, Joe is a consultant to the OECD, the Centre for European Policy Studies, and several financial institutions and research agencies. His consultancy activities involve corporate governance and securities regulation issues and M&A. He is currently co-director of the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance.
Jeroen Ligterink - Assistant Professor of Finance
Jeroen Ligterink is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and a PhD in Finance from the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has been a visiting lecturer in Prague and St. Petersburg. Jeroen Ligterink has also been co-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Corporate Finance - a think tank specialising in the financial management of corporations and the operation of the financial sector. He has acted as a consultant for the government and several corporations. His research interests are corporate finance, risk management and bankruptcy procedures.
Brendan O'Dwyer - Professor of Accounting
Brendan O'Dwyer is Professor of Accounting at the Amsterdam Business School. He previously worked at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin where he lectured extensively on MBA and executive education programmes as well as acting as Programme Director of the Master of Accounting. Brendan's research interests are interdisciplinary and qualitative in focus and encompass: corporate social accountability; social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting; non governmental organization (NGO) accounting and accountability, corporate governance, qualitative research methods, and professional accounting ethics. He is widely recognised as a leading international scholar in the area of corporate social accountability and his work has been published in the three foremost international interdisciplinary accounting academic journals: Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Critical Perspectives on Accounting, as well as in other journals such as The European Accounting Review and The British Accounting Review. Brendan is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, a qualification he attained prior to joining academia when he worked as an auditor with Ernst and Young in Dublin.
Jan-Willem Stoelhorst - Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization
Jan-Willem Stoelhorst is Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization. He received his PhD (cum laude) from the University of Twente in 1997. Before joining the ABS, he was one of the core lecturers in the MBA programs of TSM Business School for over 10 years. During that time he was also responsible for management training and consulting projects for a number of medium-sized and large companies. He has published on various aspects of strategy and organization, and his current research interests focus on the application of evolutionary principles to competitive strategy and the theory of the firm.
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes - Professor in International Corporate Finance
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes is Professor specialised in International Corporate Finance and Financial Markets, Legal Reform and Privatisation. He has been an advisor on these topics to many governments, international institutions and corporations and has numerous publications in top Finance and Economic Journals. Florencio’s research shows the relevance of law and institutions for optimal functioning of markets and their development. He received Harvard's Wells Prize for the Best Dissertation in Economics (1995), the National Award for Law and Economics of the National Association of Law and Economics in Mexico (1996), the Brattle Prize for distinguished papers in the Journal of Finance of the American Finance Association (1999), and the Jensen Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations (2000). He has been a professor at Harvard and Yale. He holds a Master's in Economics and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
Ludovic Phalippou - Assistant Professor of Finance
Ludovic holds a PhD in Finance from INSEAD, and Masters degrees from both the University of Southern California (Mathematical Finance and Economics) and Toulouse University (BS Economics). Ludovic's current research interests focus on the determinants of the portfolio liquidity of institutional investors and on the performance of private equity funds. Future studies will look at the pricing of illiquidity and risk in leverage buyout investments with a view to deepening understanding of stock-market anomalies. In the MIF he mainly teaches in and coordinates the Investments course.
Alexander Rinnooy Kan - Professor of Policy Analysis in the Public and Private Sectors
Dr A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan was appointed unsalaried Professor of Policy Analysis in the Private and Public Sectors in the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 1 September 2007. This is a new research chair. The appointment marks Rinnooy Kan's return to the university where he obtained his doctorate in 1976. The chair, which is housed within the Amsterdam Business School at the FEB, is aimed at fostering a better understanding of the effectiveness of negotiation processes, including how they operate in the public and private sectors, and at national and international levels. With his in-depth knowledge of socio-economic issues gained from work in both the private and the public sector, Alexander Rinnooy Kan will be able to make a valuable contribution to education and research at the business school. His activities will include giving lectures and classes, and acting as a link between the academic and corporate worlds.
Rinnooy Kan graduated cum laude in Mathematics from the University of Leiden in 1972, and obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the UvA in 1976. He has been Crown-appointed member and chair of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER) since 2006. He previously served in various academic functions, including as Professor of Operations research and Rector Magnificus at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Following this appointment he held various administrative functions in the public and private sectors. These included membership on the Board of Governors of the ING Group and chairmanship of the corporate association VNO-NCW. Rinnooy Kan received an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1994. Rinnooy Kan will provide lectures for the Amsterdam Leadership Programme and will be involved in the elective Negotiations.
Hans Strikwerda - Professor in Organisation and Organisational Change
Hans Strikwerda is Professor in Organisation and Organisational change. He is an international expert on the organisation of multinational and other complex organisations, esp. their internal governance. His expertise especially focuses on re-designing organisations and their corporate strategies due to fundamental changes in their environments, market structures, technologies, consumer preferences. Hans has a solid track record of proven innovative solutions, based on in depth knowledge of both organisation and management theory and on empirical developments in market and economies. As the director of the Nolan Norton Institute he carries out research in the field of internal governance and other topics of organisational processes. For his publications on internal governance he received the national Professional Publication Price (1996) and on shared service centres the Best Management Book Award (2004). In addition Hans publishes on new developments in the field of new organisations, governance, strategy and management consulting. He is also a member of the Programme Committee of The Amsterdam MBA.