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Dylan Minor

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strategy at UCLA Anderson School of Management

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  • UCLA Anderson School of Management

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UCLA Anderson School of Management

Dylan Minor’s professional experience began in the field of investment management at companies that included Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo. Not long after, he opened his own wealth management firm, Omega Financial Group, which has about $250 million of capital responsibility and continues to help clients with a variety of life-planning issues, ranging from retirement plans and the sale of a business to a change in marital status or maximizing one's financial resources. He also founded and manages a hedge fund, Argos Total Return Fund, and serves as an expert consultant with numerous companies.

With an increasing interest in investment research and analysis, Minor earned a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and was subsequently appointed to teaching and research positions at Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management. His academic work has been focused on the field of strategic human capital with primary interest in the intersection of social responsibility, strategic human resource management, business ethics and financial performance. “This draw comes from my wanting to think about business more holistically,” Minor says.

His research has been featured in a variety of media, including: ABC, The Academic Minute, Barron's, CBS, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, Harvard Gazette, INC.com, NPR (All Things Considered), Quartz, USA Today, Wired, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

A first-generation college graduate, Minor (whose first name is pronounced Die-Lynn) has a penchant for the game of tennis.

Education

  • Ph.D., 2011, University of California, Berkeley
  • M.S., 2008, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.A., 2006, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summa Cum Laude

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Minor, Dylan and Nicola Persico. 2013. The Volcker Rule: Financial Crisis, Bailouts, and the Need for Financial Regulation. Case 5-412-753 (KEL703).

In response to the potential collapse of large financial institutions in 2007, the U.S. government committed trillions of dollars to loans, asset purchases, guarantees, direct spending to provide fiscal stimulus, expansionary monetary policy, and bailouts of various private financial institutions. The bailouts were especially controversial because public money was used to protect private financial institutions and their wealthy executives while ordinary citizens received no such protection.

One outcome of the government’s response was the proposal to enact into law the Volcker rule, which prohibited banks from engaging in proprietary trading, or trading for their own—not their clients’—benefit. Proprietary trading was believed to generate up to 10 percent of total trading revenues, which would have exceeded $5.9 billion in 2010 for the six largest American banks alone.

If the Volcker rule were to become law, government agencies, including the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the FDIC, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, would write the detailed regulations that would implement the law. These agencies employed civil servants but were run by political appointees with technical backgrounds. After issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking the agencies would solicit comments from the public, which would help shape the regulations.

Executives of large banks needed to decide how to respond to this potential change in their business environment.

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