Invesco Chair - Finance Professor

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About The Scheller College of Business
The Scheller College of Business' Full-time MBA Program is ranked #4 among public universities by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2023) and #25 overall in U.S. News & World Report (2024). Georgia Tech is one of the nation's leading research universities and consistently ranks among the top public universities in the country. Atlanta is the 6th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and serves as a cultural and economic hub for the region.

The Finance Area consists of ten tenure-track faculty members and includes one endowed chair. Faculty members have distinct backgrounds and pursue a variety of research interests, including asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, household finance, labor finance, FinTech, and machine learning. They publish in the premier outlets of finance and adjacent fields, and their research has received numerous scholarly awards. Additional information can be found at https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/academics-research/finance/index.html. Through the Financial Service Innovation Lab (https://fintech.gatech.edu), the finance area collaborates with many companies and has access to many proprietary datasets.

Atlanta, GA

The Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology invites candidate applications and nominations for tenure-track faculty position for the Invesco Chair in Finance. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching and mentoring of students.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, mentor graduate students and junior faculty, advise students at all levels and maintain an active research program. The typical course load is three courses a year.

• The ideal senior candidates should be internationally recognized scholars who demonstrate an established record of excellence in research, teaching, and mentoring.
• Candidates should be eligible for academic appointment as Professor with tenure at the College and would be able to build relations with the business community, as well as with other relevant units within Georgia Tech.
• The ideal candidate must also be able to conduct research, teach at the undergraduate and graduate level, and provide service to the College, the Institute, and the finance profession.

Your submission must contain:

1. cover letter,
2. vita including education, research interests/publications, work experience and other relevant information,
3. one or more sample research papers and
4. the names and contact information for three to five references.

NOTE: Letters of recommendation will "only" be solicited for candidates who advance to the final stage of selection.

Correspondence should be addressed to the Invesco Chair of Finance Recruiting Committee. Applications should be sent no later than January 15, 2025.

Questions pertaining to this search should be sent to: Recruit-finance-Chair@scheller.gatech.edu.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening.