Bio

Alon P. Brav
Bratton Family Distinguished Professor of Finance

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1998.

Alon Brav is Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.  Professor Brav obtained his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He joined the Fuqua Faculty in 1997. 

Professor Brav’s current research focuses on corporate governance, shareholder voting, and hedge fund activism. This research has been featured in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies,Financial Analysts Journal, and Columbia Law Review. Professor Brav has also studied the debate between rational and behavioral finance and the literature on limits to arbitrage activities. This research has been featured in the Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance and Journal of Economic Methodology.

Professor Brav was awarded the 1998 Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize at the Journal of Finance with Paul Gompers, the 2003 Barclays Global Investors Michael Brennan Award for the best paper at the Review of financial studieswith J.B. Heaton, the 2005 Jensen Prize for the best corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics with John Graham, Campbell Harvey and Roni Michaely, the 2016 Barclays Global Investors Michael Brennan Award for the best paper published at the Review of Financial studies with Wei Jiang and Hyunseob Kim, and the 2018 Jensen Prize for the best corporate finance and organizations paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics with Wei Jiang, Song Ma, and Xuan Tian.

Professor Brav is faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Corporate Finance Program. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Finance, and Research member and Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Professor Brav currently teaches Financial Management in the Weekend Executive MBA program. He has taught Financial Management in the Global Executive MBA and Master of Management programs and an Investments and Corporate Restructuring electives in the Daytime MBA program.