The Program for Financial Studies (PFS) at Columbia Business School seeks to support and promote the School’s research in financial economics and quantitative finance, to advance the School’s educational mission, and to foster engagement with industry partners.
Mark Broadie
Professor Broadie currently teaches the elective courses Security Pricing: Models and Computation, Computational Finance, and Programming for Business Research. He is an Academic Advisory Board Member for the Program for Financial Studies. His research interests include the pricing of derivative securities, risk management and, more generally, quantitative methods for decision-making under uncertainty.
Melina Denebeim
Ms. Denebeim co-directs the Program for Financial Studies (PFS) and the Master of Science in Financial Economics degree program (MSFE). She joined CBS in 2014 after eight years in capital markets and investment banking roles, including Credit Suisse and Guggenheim Securities. In the MSFE program, she teaches effective communication seminars for EMBA and MBA students, and she facilitated an NYC immersion course titled “Creative Destruction in Financial Services”. She also co-authored a Columbia CaseWorks technical note on LBO Valuation.
Harry Mamaysky
Harry Mamaysky is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, where he serves as the Director of the Program for Financial Studies. He is also on the Steering Committee of the Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Technology. Harry teaches capital markets and asset pricing to MBA, Masters and PhD students, as well as Executive Education courses on the use of text data in finance, and on corporate bonds. He has consulted for a quantitative investment firm and for a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.