Charles Hadlock

Dr. Charles Hadlock is currently the Frederick S. Addy Distinguished Chair in Finance at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He has held prior faculty appointments at the Universities of Florida, Illinois, and Virginia and visiting faculty positions at the Universities of Michigan and Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1994 from M.I.T. and his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1989. Dr. Hadlock's research is concentrated in the areas of corporate finance and corporate governance. His papers have appeared in leading journals in finance, economics, and accounting including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the RAND Journal of Economics. Dr. Hadlock received the 2011 and 2014 Michael Brennan Prize for the best paper published in the Review of Financial Studies. In 1997 he won the Merton Miller prize for the most outstanding research published in the Journal of Business. He has won several teaching awards including winning the Executive MBA Teaching Award six times.