Finance for Non-Finance Careers

Leonid Kogan

Finance Faculty Chair

Leonid Kogan is the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Professor of Management and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research covers theoretical and empirical topics in capital markets. Dr. Kogan has published extensively in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, and Operations Research. Dr. Kogan has won several professional awards, including the 1998 Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance for his work on the asset pricing implications of investment irreversibility; the 2004 FAME Research Prize and the 2006 Smith Breeden Prize for his work on the price impact and survival of irrational traders; the 2007 Crowell Memorial Prize for his work on output durability and stock returns; the 2013 Crowell Memorial Prize for his work on technological innovation and growth; the 2013 Whitebox Advisors Award for his work on the price impact of mutual fund trading and timing of SEOs; and the 2014 Amundi Smith Breeden Prize for his work on the effect of technology shocks on stock prices. He received his M.Sc. degree in mechanics and applied mathematics from the Moscow State University, a Ph.D. in mechanics from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. degree in finance from MIT.

John Ghirardelli (MBA '14)

Director, U.S. Innovation

American Tower

Uri Mariash (MBA '09)

Field Sales Executive

Google

Nat Gregory

Senior Lecturer, Finance

MIT Sloan

Before joining MIT Sloan School of Management in the fall of 2013, Nat Gregory was Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he taught from 2005-2013. 

Prior to Chicago Booth, he was chairman and CEO of NATCO Group, Inc., a NYSE oilfield equipment and services company.  Previously, Gregory held various positions in investment banking, including general partner in mergers and acquisitions at Lazard Freres & Co in the 1980s.  For a number of years he was a managing director at a private equity firm, Capricorn Holdings.  Gregory serves or has served on several boards of directors, including OCI Partners, Rotech Healthcare, Plainfield Direct, NATCO Group, Mrs. Fields Cookies and Marine Drilling.  In the early 1980s, he was chief economist and a vp, financial services at Bechtel Group, a privately owned engineering contractor based in San Francisco.  Prior to Bechtel and before graduate school, he had been a foreign affairs analyst and speechwriter at the Congressional Research Service in Washington, DC.

Gregory holds a master's degree in American government from Georgetown University and a master's degree in public policy from the University of Chicago.  He earned his PhD in economics at the University of Chicago in 1980, with concentrations in the fields of mathematical economics and law and economics.