Principles of Corporate Finance

About the Author

Richard Brealey

Richard A. Brealey - Emeritus Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is the former president of the European Finance Association and a former director of the American Finance Association. He is a fellow of the British Academy and has served as a special adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England and director of a number of financial institutions. Other books written by Professor Brealey include Introduction to Risk and Return from Common Stocks.

Stewart Myers

Stewart C. Myers - Emeritus Professor of Financial Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is past president of the American Finance Association, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a principal of the Brattle Group Inc., and a retired director of Entergy Corporation. His research is primarily concerned with the valuation of real and financial assets, corporate financial policy, and financial aspects of government regulation of business. He is the author of influential research papers on many topics, including adjusted present value, rate of return regulation, pricing and capital allocation in insurance, real options, and moral hazard and information issues in capital structure decisions.

Franklin Allen

Franklin Allen - Professor of Finance and Economics, Imperial College London, and Emeritus Nippon Life Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is past president of the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, Society for Financial Studies, Financial Intermediation Research Society, and Financial Management Association. His research has focused on financial innovation, asset price bubbles, comparing financial systems, and financial crises. He is Director of the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at Imperial College Business School.

Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans - Professor of Finance at London Business School and Mercers School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College. He is also Managing Editor of the Review of Finance and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton, where he won 14 teaching awards in six years. His research focuses on corporate finance, responsible business, and behavioral finance. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talk “The Social Responsibility of Business”; he is also advisor to several investment management companies. He is the author of Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit. Poets & Quants named him MBA Professor of the Year for 2021.