Title
Senior Lecturer in the Brandeis University International Business School
International Business School
Expertise
Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions, Labor Economics, Strategic Management, Social Capital, and Energy
Profile
John Ballantine is a specialist on corporate finance and strategic planning. He has taught finance, economics, and banking at Babson College and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was the Chief Financial Officer of a small startup software company. Ballantine was also a senior consultant with the Financial Industries Division at Arthur D. Little, Inc., and a banker with Chase Manhattan Bank. He has published a number of articles about labor economics, the banking industry, financial crises, and small business finance. He currently is Director of the MSF program at Brandeis International Business and Senior Lecturer.
Degrees
New York University, Ph.D.
University of Chicago, M.A.
Harvard University, B.A.
Contact
| Email: | johnbal@brandeis.edu |
| Phone: | 781-736-4841 |
| Office: | Sachar International Center, 13 |
Awards and Honors
Commonwealth of Massachusettes, Carlisle Democrat (2006)
Courses Taught
| BUS | 291g | General Education Seminar |
| ECON | 201a | Global Economic Environment |
| ECON | 277f | Public Policy, Business Leadership and World Affairs: An Insider's Perspective |
| FIN | 201a | Investments |
| FIN | 202a | International Corporate Finance |
| FIN | 232a | Mergers and Acquisitions Analysis |
| FIN | 235a | Investing in Energy: Fossil Fuels to Cleaner Energy |
| FIN | 255a | World Financial Centers |
| FIN | 255f | World Financial Centers |
Scholarship