professor of finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jonathan Berk
professor of finance | Stanford Graduate School of Business
About Jonathan
Jonathan B. Berk is the A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a position he has held since 2008. Prior to joining Stanford, he was the Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as an analyst for Goldman Sachs before beginning his academic career. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 22, 1962, Berk earned his BA in physics from Rice University in 1984. He later completed his MA and MPhil degrees in finance in 1989 and his PhD in finance in 1990 at Yale University. Berk is recognized for his theoretical research in corporate finance, with particular emphasis on money management, asset pricing, corporate capital structure, and the interactions between labor and markets, along with theories of market rationality. He is a widely published scholar and a highly cited author in these fields. Throughout his career, Berk has received numerous awards for his original research, including the Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics, the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award in 2005, the Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper of the year in the Review of Financial Studies in 1999, and the FAME Research Prize.
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All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions
Ep77 The Academic Journal System is Broken, Here’s How to Fix It
May 13, 2026
Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast
The Devil Wears Prada 2 & Mortal Kombat 2
May 12, 2026
If/Then
Unconventional Wisdom
May 6, 2026
Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast
Faces of Death
Apr 15, 2026
Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast
They Will Kill You and Pizza Movie
Apr 7, 2026
All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions
Ep75 The Misleading Truth Behind IRR
Apr 2, 2026
Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast
Project Hail Mary
Mar 25, 2026
All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions
Ep74 Is The Financial Sector Good for Society?
Mar 18, 2026
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