Integrating Excel into your Core Finance Course
Join Professor Jarrad Harford of University of Washington for a discussion on how to use videos and MyLab™ features to ensure that students have the necessary financial function skills.
Professor Jarrad Harford, University of Washington
In this session, Professor Jarrad Harford highlights ways to utilize videos and MyLab™ features to ensure that students have the financial function skills in Excel that employers expect. He will also share how instructors can integrate Excel content into their course in a way that helps them save time while also helping students master key concepts and develop those important real-world skills.
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Professor Jarrad Harford
Jarrad Harford is the Paul Pigott - PACCAR Professor of Finance at the University of Washington. Prior to Washington, Professor Harford taught at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. He received his PhD in Finance with a minor in Organizations and Markets from the University of Rochester. Professor Harford has taught the core undergraduate finance course, Business Finance, for over nineteen years, as well as an elective in Mergers and Acquisitions, and Finance for Non-financial Executives in the executive education program. He has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the UW Finance Professor of the Year (2010, 2012, 2016), Panhellenic/Interfraternity Council Business Professor of the Year Award (2011, 2013), ISMBA Excellence in Teaching Award (2006), and the Wells Fargo Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2005). Jarrad is currently a Managing Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Corporate Finance. His main research interests are understanding the dynamics of merger and acquisition activity as well as the interaction of corporate cash management policy with governance, payout and global tax considerations.
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