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Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Gordon Phillips

Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Finance and Faculty Advisor, Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital

Gordon Phillips

ABOUT

Gordon Phillips is the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration and a professor of finance at the Tuck School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and UNSW in Sydney.   He received his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.  He previously taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), Duke University, HEC Paris, INSEAD, MIT, and Southern Mediterranean University.

His areas of research include computational linguistics, AI and finance, household finance, and corporate finance. His work in AI and finance includes studies of merger synergies and the scope of firms. His corporate finance work includes studies of private equity, mergers, and competition. Phillips’s recent research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has given keynote addresses on Finance and AI in Cyprus, Paris, and Singapore, and has served as the president of the Midwest Finance Association.



Highlights

Presidential Address at the Midwest Finance Association - March 19, 2021
Finance and Competition
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Courses Offered  //

"Finance and Industrial Organization," Course that covers current issues including computational linguistics analsysis that are explored in a PhD course taught by Gordon M. Phillips at USI in Lugano Switzerland, UNSW in Australia, USC, HEC Paris, Insead, Vienna, Australian Finance Research Network, and the Nordic Finance Network.

"NLP, Machine Learning, and AI in Finance."  Course that covers finance applications of new big data textual methods, including Natural Language Processing (NLP)/ Machine Learning (ML), and Textual Artificial Intelligence (AI). Course examines how this broad area has applications in finance with tools that include simple text processing to more advanced tools such as machine learning and predictive AI.

"Venture Capital and Private Equity." Course covers the VC/PE landscape through the lens of general partners, limited partners, and portfolio companies. Specific topics will include portfolio management, deal origination, in-depth due diligence and financial modeling, transaction structuring and financing, value creation, and performance measurement.

Financial Management Association Asia  //

Keynote Address

Industries and Competition: New Foundations for Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing

Finance, Organizations and Markets (FOM) Research Group Conference  //

The 2024 FOM Conference will be held at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Learn more.

Hoberg-Phillips Data Library  //

Data provided by Gerard Hoberg (USC) and Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth). Learn more

Risk Adjusted PE Performance Index  //

New research paper: “Risk-Adjusted Private Equity Performance Using Individual Portfolio Company Outcomes.” Read the latest research.

Work in Progress  //

See all working papers.

Contact

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Phone

603-646-9139

Education

  • Ph.D., M.A., Harvard University, 1991
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