Malcolm Baker

Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is the Unit Head for finance, and the program director for corporate finance at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

His research is in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate finance, and capital markets, with a primary focus on the interactions among corporate finance, investor behavior, and inefficiency in capital markets. Professor Baker has made numerous presentations to academic and practitioner audiences. His research awards include the 2002 Brattle Prize, given annually by the American Finance Association to the best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Finance, second place for the 2012 Jensen Prize, given annually by the Journal of Financial Economics, the 2011 Sharpe Award, given annually by the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the 2011 and 2014 Graham and Dodd Scroll, given annually by the Financial Analysts Journal. He has served as associate editor for the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. 

Baker has taught in the first and second year of the MBA program at Harvard Business School and in several executive education programs. He has developed elective courses in investment strategies and behavioral finance. 

Baker received a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in finance from Cambridge University, and a bachelor''s degree in applied mathematics-economics from Brown University. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he was a senior associate at Charles River Associates and a member of the US Olympic rowing team.

Outside of Harvard, he serves as a director of research at Acadian Asset Management, an institutional asset management firm focusing in active global and international equity strategies, and as a board member at Triton International, the world''s largest intermodal container leasing company.