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Professor of Finance
BA (Oxford) PhD (MIT)
Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (New York). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton in 2007 and was tenured in 2013 shortly before moving to LBS.
Alex’s research interests are in corporate finance, responsible business and behavioural finance. He is a Director of the American Finance Association and a Fellow of the Financial Management Association. From 2017-2022 he was Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, presented to the World Bank Board of Directors as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talks The Pie-Growing Mindset and The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2.7 million views. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and World Economic Forum and been interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, NPR, Reuters, Sky News, and Sky Sports.
Alex serves as a Non-Executive Director of The Investor Forum, which promotes collaborative engagement between investors and companies, on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on the Steering Group of The Purposeful Company, a UK consortium of leaders in responsible business. The UK government appointed him (jointly with PwC) to study the alleged misuse of share buybacks and the link between executive pay and investment. Alex previously served as Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, giving a four-year programme of lectures to the public. His series are on The Principles of Finance (2021/2), The Psychology of Finance (2020/1), Business Skills for the 21st Century (2019/20) and How Business Can Better Serve Society (2018/9).
Alex’s book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was featured in the Financial Times Best Business Books of 2020 and won the Financial Times award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education; it has been or is being translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish. He is a co-author of the 14th edition of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen).
Alex was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. He has won 24 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS, won the Finance for the Future award for Driving Change in the finance community, and featured in Thinkers50 Radar.
MBA Class of 2016 Teaching Award; MBA Class of 2019 Teaching Award
Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching Award (2010, 2012, 2013)
Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award (2007, 2008)
Wharton MBA Core Curriculum Award (“goes above and beyond the call of duty”) (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013)
Wharton MBA Core Curriculum Award (“tough, but we’ll thank this professor in 5 years”) (2008, 2013)
WhartonMBA Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award (2012)
MIT Graduate Teaching Award, 2006-7
MIT Sloan Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year, 2004-5
2023
Edmans A
Financial Analysts Journal 2023 Vol 79:4 p 16-29
Edmans A; Gosling T; Jenter D
Journal of Financial Economics 2023 In Press
Edmans A; Li L; Zhang C
Management Science 2023 Accepted
Edmans A
Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 2023 Vol 21:3 p 465-469
2022
Berinato S
Harvard Business Review 2022 Jan/Feb
Edmans A; Fernandez-Perez A; Garel A; Indriawan I
Journal of Financial Economics 2022 Vol 145:2 p 234-254
Edmans A; Fang V W; Huang A H
Journal of Accounting Research 2022 Vol 60:3 p 1007-1046
2021
Chaigneau P; Edmans A; Gottlieb D
Review of Financial Studies 2021 In Press
2020
Edmans A
Economic Affairs 2020 Vol 40:2 p 287-294
Edmans A; Levit D; Reilly D
Review of Financial Studies 2019 Vol 32:7 p 2673-2719
Chaigneau P; Edmans A; Gottlieb D
Games and Economic Behavior 2019 January Vol 113 p 743-755
Edmans A
in Shackleton J R (ed.), Top dogs & fat cats: the debate on high pay, Institute of Economic Affairs, 57-70, 2019
2018
Chaigneau P; Edmans A; Gottlieb D
Journal of Financial Economics 2018 Vol 130:2 p 291-307
Edmans A; Goncalves-Pinto L; Groen-Xu M; Wang Y
Review of Financial Studies 2018 Vol 31:11 p 4099-4141
Edmans A
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2018
Edmans A
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2018
2017
Edmans A
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2017
Edmans A; Holderness CG
in Handbook of the economics of corporate governance, Volume 1, Elsevier
Edmans A; Fang V; Lewellen K
Review of Financial Studies 2017 Vol 30:7 p 2229-2271
Edmans A; Gabaix X; Jenter D
in Hermalin B E; Weisbach M S (eds.) Handbook of the economics of corporate governance, Volume 1, Elsevier, 2017
Edmans A; Jayaraman S; Schneemeier J
Journal of Financial Economics 2017 Vol 126:1 p 74-96
Edmans A
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2017
2016
Edmans A
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2016
Edmans A; Gabaix A
Journal of Economic Literature 2016 Vol 54:4 p 1232-1287
Edmans A
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2016
Edmans A; Heinle M S; Huang C
Review of Finance 2016 Vol 20:6 p 2151-2182
2015
Edmans A; Goldstein I; Jiang W
American Economic Review 2015 Vol 105:12 p 3766-3797
2014
Edmans A
Annual Review of Financial Economics 2014 Vol 6 p 23-50
2013
Edmans A; Fang VW; Zur E
Review of Financial Studies 2013 Vol 26:6 p 1443-1482
2012
Edmans A; Gabaix X; Sadzik T; Sannikov Y
Journal of Finance 2012 Vol 67:5 p 1603-1647
Edmans A
Academy of Management Perspectives 2012 November Vol 26:4 p 1-19
Bond P; Edmans A; Goldstein I
Annual Review of Financial Economics 2012 October Vol 4 p 339-360
Edmans A; Goldstein I; Jiang W
Journal of Finance 2012 Vol 67:3 p 933-971
2011
Bao J; Edmans A
Review of Financial Studies 2011 July Vol 24:7 p 2286-2315
Edmans A
Journal of Financial Economics 2011 September Vol 101:3 p 621-640
Edmans A; Manso G
Review of Financial Studies 2011 July Vol 24:7 p 2395-2428
Edmans A
Journal of Financial Economics 2011 October Vol 102:1 p 81-101
Edmans A; Gabaix X
Review of Financial Studies 2011 August Vol 24:8 p 2822-2863
Edmans A; Gabaix X
Review of Financial Studies 2011 September Vol 24:9 p 2865-2894
2009
Edmans A; Gabaix X; Landier A
Review of Financial Studies 2009 Vol 22:12 p 4881-4917
Edmans A
Journal of Finance 2009 December Vol 64:6 p 2481-2513
Edmans A; Gabaix X
European Financial Management 2009 June Vol 15:3 p 486-496
2007
Edmans A; García; Norli Ø
Journal of Finance 2007 August Vol 62:4 p 1967-1998
2018
Chaigneau P; Edmans A; Gottlieb D
European Corporate Governance Institute - Finance Working Paper
2017
Edmans A; Fang V W; Huang A
European Corporate Governance Institute - Finance Working Paper
Chaigneau P; Edmans A; Gottlieb D
European Corporate Governance Institute - Finance Working Paper
2016
Edmans A; Li L; Zhang C
Working Paper
Chaigneau P; Edmans A; Gottlieb D
CEPR discussion paper
Edmans A; Jayaraman S; Schneemeier J
Working Paper
Edmans A; Goncalves-Pinto L; Wang Y; Xu M
CEPR discussion paper
2020
Edmans A
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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