Professor

Senior Associate Dean A.B.Freeman School of Business

 

EDUCATION

●University of California at Santa Barbara, Ph.D. in Economics

●University of California at Santa Barbara, M.A. in Economics

●California State University at San Jose. B.A. in Liberal Studies

 

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Paul A. Spindt serves the Freeman school in multiple capacities in his roles as a professor and as an associate dean. He has been instrumental in expanding the Freeman Schools reputation and influence, including founding the Ph.D. program in Latin America.Professor Spindt has a long and influential professional background working with the Federal Reserve System. He has been with Tulane since 1990, where he consistently brings his real-world experience into the classroom.

Before joining Tulane, Professor Spindt worked in Washington D.C. for the Federal Reserve Board. There, he began working with abstract economic concepts and eventually became more engaged in capitalmarkets and banks, interested in looking at institutions and how they operate. This led him to his work with financial economics, and he has since shared his background with students.

Professor

Senior Associate Dean A.B.Freeman School of Business

 

EDUCATION

●University of California at Santa Barbara, Ph.D. in Economics

●University of California at Santa Barbara, M.A. in Economics

●California State University at San Jose. B.A. in Liberal Studies

 

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Paul A. Spindt serves the Freeman school in multiple capacities in his roles as a professor and as an associate dean. He has been instrumental in expanding the Freeman Schools reputation and influence, including founding the Ph.D. program in Latin America.Professor Spindt has a long and influential professional background working with the Federal Reserve System. He has been with Tulane since 1990, where he consistently brings his real-world experience into the classroom.

 

Before joining Tulane, Professor Spindt worked in Washington D.C. for the Federal Reserve Board. There, he began working with abstract economic concepts and eventually became more engaged in capitalmarkets and banks, interested in looking at institutions and how they operate. This led him to his work with financial economics, and he has since shared his background with students.

Professor

 

EDUCATION

●Tulane University, Ph.D. in Finance

●Tulane University, Master in Management

●UFM-Guatemala, Master in Management

●IEB-Spain, Master in Capital Markets and Asset Management

●MBA. PUC-Chile

●ITESM-Mexico, B.S. Biochemistry Engineering

 

BIOGRAPHY

Helmuth is the research director of the Burkenroad Reports, for Guatemala and Central America, and adjunct professor for finance at Tulane University; he teaches the courses of Firm Valuation, Options Futures and other Derivatives, Financial Management and Portfolio Management.

 

 

Helmuth is Co-Founder and General Partner at Invariants Fund, a venture capital fund focused in technology companies in Latin America; partner at Stern Learning Systems; Dean of the UFM School of Business; consultant and board member for several companies in Latin America: former member of the Board of the Guatemalan Council for Competitiveness(CPC), researcher and author of publications focused on investments and entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

Professor

 

EDUCATION

●Tulane University, Ph.D. in Finance

●Tulane University,Master of Arts in Economics

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Eduardo Pablo is Professor of Finance at the College of Business & Innovation of Minnesota State University Moorhead. He is also Professor for International Programs at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. For Tulane, he coordinates the Latin Burkenroad program for the Goldring Institute for International Business. He has a vast experience analyzing emerging markets.Before moving to United States, he worked at EGADE-ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico(2003-2005 )and at IESA in Caracas, Venezuela(2001-2003 and 2005-2010). In his home country Venezuela, he studied Industrial Engineering (1985-1990)and a Master in Business Administration(1991-1993).

Assistant Professor

 

EDUCATION

●B.S., Economics (Finance and Management), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia, PA-2004

●M.A., Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA-2007

●Ph.D., Finance, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, IN-2011

 

BIOGRAPHY

Peggy Huang currently works as a Director at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association(TIAA). She previously worked as Senior Investment Associate for Prudential Financial Inc. and a Financial Economist with the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commissions. She previously taught as an Assistant Professor at Tulane University’s A B. Freeman School of Business from 2011-2014.

 

RESEARCH

 

Peggy Huang’s research interests focus on Empirical Corporate Finance, Investments. Financial Reporting and Executive Contracting. Her most recent publications are"Contractual vs. Actual Separation Pay Following CEO Turnover"(with Eitan Goldman, Indiana University), Published in an A-Level Journal: Management Science 61 (5): 1108-1120, May 2015, Featured story in the Harvard Law School Forum; "The Causes and Consequences of CEO Severance Agreements", Featured story in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Market Watch, Summary: Firms with CEO severance agreements experience lower stock returns than those without agreements; "Soft information, Innovation, and Stock Returns"(with Yiqing Lu, New York University and Moqi Xu, London School of Economics), Summary: Firms with CEO salary increases following scheduled informal subjective performance reviews experience higher stock returns than those without the increases.

Associate Teaching Professor 

 Peking University 

 CFA, PhD

 

Ph.D. in Finance, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA 2009 

Visiting Ph.D. Student, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA 2005

MBA with finance concentration, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA 2003

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA 1983

 

EXPERIENCE

- Associate Teaching Professor Peking University Shenzhen, China 2016 –present

- Assistant Professor Peking University Shenzhen, China 2010 – 2016

- General Manager Filtration Group TM York, USA 1998 – 2001

- Global Market Development Manager Hoechst Celanese Bobingen, Germany 1996 – 1998

 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

- PHBS Outstanding Faculty Award, one of six selected in the HSBC Business School, 2017-2018

- PKU Excellence in Teaching Course for Financial Modeling: one of four PKU Shenzhen campuswide; one of 43 PKU-wide, academic year 2016-2017 

- Teaching award for Single Best Teacher, 2010-2011, PKU HSBC Business School (PHBS) 

- Teaching award, one of five selected PKU Shenzhen campus-wide, 2010-2011

- Awarded CFA Charter, 2005

- Dean James F. Kane Academic Excellence (top ranked student: cohort of 102 students), USC, 2003

- Distinguished Student Award for Academic Excellence (G.P.A. of 4.0/4.0), USC, 2003

- Darla Moore Scholarship and Award for Academic Merit, USC, 2001– 2003

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Asset Valuation Theory”, textbook in English, PKU Press, 2017

“Asset Valuation Theory”, textbook translated into Chinese, PKU Press, 2018

“Financial Modeling in Excel”, textbook currently being published in English, PKU Press, 2019

“Financial Modeling in Excel”, textbook translated into Chinese, currently being published by PKU, Press, 2019