Service

…Since 1989

Various Department Committees, including:

  • Section leader, campus charitable fund drive, 1990
  • Corporate Finance Ph.D. Prelim committee, (1990-96)
  • Investments Ph.D. Prelim committee (1990-95)
  • Department of Finance Executive Committee (1990-92, 1994-95)
  • Teaching Performance Committee (1993-95)
  • Graduate Standards Committee (1993-94)
  • Seminar Coordinator (1997-2008, 2014-present)

Various College committees, including:

  • Ad hoc Financial Database Advisory Committee, (1991-94)
  • College of Commerce Executive Committee (1991-92, 1993-94)
  • Commerce ’95 Steering Committee (1990-93)
  • Executive Education Committee (1989-92)
  • Affirmative Action Committee (1994-95)
  • MBA Educational Policy Committee (1990-91)
  • Chairman, BEBR Research Programmer Search Committee, 1990
  • Chairman, Associate Director of Placement Search Committee, 1993
  • Assistant Director of Development Search Committee, 1995
  • Research Committee, (chairman 1997-2001, 2007-2011, 2013-present; chairman 1997-98 and 2000-01, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2013-present)
  • Promotion and Tenure Committee, (2000-2006 and 2009-2009; chairman 2001-2002 and 2005-06 and 2008-09)
  • Dean’s Advisory Committee (2005-2007)
  • Sabbatical Committee (2003-2004 and 2010-2011)
  • Strategic Planning Committee (2011-2012)

University committees:

  • University of Illinois Promotion and Tenure Committee, (1993-95; chairman, 1994-95)
  • University of Florida Foundation Investments Committee, Special Advisor (1999-2003)
  • Florida Tomorrow Fundraising Campaign, Co-chair of Faculty/Staff Orange, Blue and You (2009-2012)
  • Excellence Awards to Assistant Professors Selection Committee, 2010

American Finance Association:

  • Director (1993-95)
  • Membership Chairman (1996-1997)
  • Journal of Finance editor search committee, (2010-2011)

Financial Management Association:

  • Awards Committee, 1993
  • Doctoral Consortium (Faculty member, 1999; Organizer, 2001)
  • Long-range Financial Planning Committee, 2007
  • Chairman, Publications Committee (2007-2010)
  • Executive Director Search Committee (2013-2014)
  • Vice President for 2012 program (Atlanta meetings)
  • President, 2014-2015 (October-October, with the term beginning at the end of the annual meeting)
  • Executive Committee, 2013-2016
  • Board of Trustees, 2015-present
  • Program Committee, Western Finance Association meetings (1989-95,1997-98,2000-03, 2005-06)
  • Program Committee, Asian Pacific Finance Assoc. meetings, (1995, 2002-2003)
  • External reviewer, University of Iowa Finance Department, 1994
  • NASD-NYSE Blue Ribbon Committee on IPO Regulations, (2002-03)
  • Letters of recommendation: About 10 per year for promotion and tenure cases at other schools
  • U.S. Senate Banking Committee Testimony, March 6, 2012
  • External reviewer, Chinese University of Hong Kong Finance Department, 2013.