Lisa Meulbroek

Areas of Expertise

• Financial Economics Risk Management

Education

• Ph.D. MIT Sloan School of Management (1986 — 1990)
• A.B. University of Chicago (1980 — 1984)

Companies

• Professor of Finance Claremont McKenna College (2003)
• Visiting Associate Professor of Finance MIT Sloan School of Management (2002 — 2003)
• Associate Professor Harvard Business School (1991 — 2002)
• Senior Research Economist US Securities and Exchange Commission (1990 — 1991)
• Associate The Boston Consulting Group (1984 — 1986)

Teaching Experience

Corporate Finance, Claremont McKenna College. Undergraduate economics elective. Introductory course (first finance course) covering elements of investments and corporate finance. Fall 2003.

Corporate Financial Management, Harvard Business School. Advanced corporate finance, second-year elective MBA-level course. Taught similar course at MIT’s Sloan School as part of second year curriculum. Both versions taught using the case method. Topics covered include various DCF-based valuation methods, their assumptions, relation to each other, and treatment of risky debt, option-pricing as applied to the firm’s debt and equity, and to the value of corporate guarantees, real options, corporate risk management integrating both risks and ways of managing that risk, market efficiency and incorporation of information, executive compensation. 1996-2002.

First-Year Finance, Harvard Business School. Introductory first-year MBAlevel finance course covering valuation, working capital management, and capital structure. Taught using case method. 1992-1995.

Executive Educative, Harvard Business School. Miscellaneous classes including risk management, valuation, and company-specific tailored programs.

Business Studies, Harvard Business School. Finance course for DBA students.

Awards for Academic Research

• Addison Wesley Prize for the Best Paper in Financial Management, 2000-2002 (biannual award).
• Best Paper Award of the 9th Global Finance Association Annual Conference, 2002.
• Best Paper in Corporate Finance, Financial Management Association European Conference, 2002
• Smith Breeden First Prize for Best Paper Published in the Journal of Finance 1993