Jonathan Berk
The A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jonathan B. Berk is the A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
His research spans a broad range of topics in finance, including delegated money management, asset pricing, firm valuation and growth opportunities, corporate capital structure, the interaction between labor and financial markets, impact investing, and professional regulation.
Before joining Stanford, Berk was the Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in his career, he worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Berk is the co-author of the finance textbooks “Corporate Finance” and “Fundamentals of Finance.” He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an associate editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management, and a former associate editor of the Journal of Finance. In addition, he has served on the boards of directors of the American Finance Association and the Financial Management Association.
His research has received numerous honors, including the Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics, the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award, the Smith Breeden Prize, the Review of Financial Studies Best Paper of the Year Award, the FAME Research Prize, the Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence, the Roger F. Murray Prize, and the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award. His article, “A Critique of Size-Related Anomalies,” was recognized as one of the two best papers ever published in the Review of Financial Studies and as one of the 100 seminal papers published by Oxford University Press.
Berk earned a Ph.D. in finance and a master’s in finance from Yale University. He also earned a bachelor’s in physics from Rice University.
