Faculty & Research


John Ballantine Jr.

Senior Lecturer in the Brandeis University International Business School

Specializations:

Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions, Labor Economics, Strategic Management, Social Capital, and Energy

Degrees:

  • New York University, Ph.D.
  • University of Chicago, M.A.
  • Harvard University, B.A.

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

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.

Awards & Honors:

  • (2006) Commonwealth of Massachusettes, Carlisle Democrat
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John Ballantine Jr.

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