Assistant Professor - Finance

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Techs faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nations top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Techs Mission and Values

Georgia Techs mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The Scheller College of Business' Full-time MBA Program is ranked #4 among public universities by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2023) and #25 overall in U.S. News & World Report (2024). Georgia Tech is one of the nation's leading research universities and consistently ranks among the top public universities in the country. Atlanta is the 6th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and serves as a cultural and economic hub for the region.

The Finance Area consists of nine tenure-track faculty members and includes one endowed chair. Faculty members have distinctive backgrounds and pursue a variety of research interests, including asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, household finance, labor finance, FinTech, and machine learning. They publish in the premier outlets of finance and adjacent fields, and their research has received numerous scholarly awards. Additional information about our faculty can be found at https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/academics-research/finance/index.html.Through the Financial Service Innovation Lab (https://fintech.gatech.edu ), the finance area collaborates with many companies and has access to many proprietary datasets.

Atlanta, GA

The Scheller College of Business https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/ at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia invites applications for an Assistant Professor faculty position in Finance starting in fall 2025.

Faculty candidates for Assistant Professor should possess demonstrated ability to teach at the undergraduate and/or graduate level and potential for excellent scholarly research. Salary and a teaching load of three courses per year are competitive with leading research universities.

Responsibilities for this position entails:

• Excellence in classroom instruction in subjects related to finance at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Dedication to participation and leadership in professional activities, such as presenting work-in-progress at important professional conferences, peer-review, and editorial positions in relevant journals.
• Commitment to service and student-engagement at the Institute level and beyond.

The minimum requirements are a Ph.D. in Finance or an associated area (candidates must have their Ph.D. completed no later than July 1, 2025).

Student Success Criteria

• The ability to adopt teaching strategies that support the learning and success of all students.
• The ability to engage students in experiential learning activities and pedagogy that support student success.

To apply, please visit and submit the following: https://bit.ly/3RJWKY0

1. A cover letter.
2. Vita including education, research interests/publications, work experience and other relevant information.
3. One or more sample research papers.
4. Three letters of recommendation with your name in the filename (e.g., Smith_John Letter of Recommendation.pdf) Please make sure your name also appears in the body of the recommendation letter. Your letter writers should submit the confidential letters of recommendation to: Recruit-finance@scheller.gatech.edu.
5. Include names and contact information of three to five references. Only references for the top candidates will be requested.

Correspondence should be addressed to the Chair of Finance Recruiting Committee. Applications should be sent no later than November 5, 2024. We will start evaluating applications immediately after the deadline, and interview invitation decisions will be made by the end of November 2024.

Questions pertaining to this search should be sent to: Recruit-finance@scheller.gatech.edu.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

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More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening.