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.

Publications:

Awards & Honors:

(2006) Commonwealth of Massachusettes, Carlisle Democrat