Dr. Taewon Yang
Taewon Yang, PH.D., is a Professor and the Department Chair of Accounting and Finance at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). He earned his B.S. from Korea Aerospace University, an MBA from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.Dr. Liang Guo
Liang Guo, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Finance in the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration at CSUSB. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Finance at UTSA and an MBA degree at Boston University. He has also passed all three exams of the CFA.
Dr. Guo believes that teaching future business and finance professionals enables him to fulfill, in a highly meaningful way, a personal goal of service to the community and to his profession. For years, he has been responsible for FIN 5460 Student Managed Investment Fund at CSUSB (a.k.a., SMIF, a real-money fund portfolio sponsored by Citizens Business Bank (CBB)), whose purpose is to give students hands-on experience and the responsibility for managing real money in today’s changing investment world. He guides undergraduate and graduate students every semester through their research, analysis, trading, and portfolio management processes and works with students’ oral and written presentations to the Chief Investment/Financial Officers of CBB. With his guidance, students gain extensive hands-on experience in performing investment research, investing money, and managing a portfolio before entering the workforce.
Student evaluations in terms of overall approval of his teaching skill for recent classes average 5.5 out of 6. He welcomes the opportunity to teach a variety of courses, including Corporate Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management, Student Managed Investment Fund, Derivatives, International Finance, Asset Valuation, and more. On the journey of educational enrichment through classroom experience and extracurricular activities, he works hard to be a mentor, a friend, and a colleague to his students.
In addition, Dr. Guo has endeavored to establish a strong pipeline for his research and has strived to be a productive researcher, publishing papers in well-regarded journals. His research interests include asset pricing anomalies, financial topics in emerging markets, public pension funds, style investing and ethical investing, earnings management, political economics, disclosures, and related areas. To date, he has published one book and has had 16 articles accepted for publication in high-quality journals, including Journal of Futures Markets, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Finance, Journal of Fixed Income, and International Review of Economics and Finance. He is currently an associate/guest editor of two business journals and has served on the editorial board and review committees for more than 20 business journals and organizations.
Dr. Ghulam Sarwar
Ghulam Sarwar, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Finance in the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration at CSUSB. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Finance at Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Professor Sarwar, of the Accounting and Finance Department, has been a finance professor for the last 29 years and has taught at AACSB business schools in the Midwest, South, and California. He joined CSUSB in 2006. His teaching and research specialty areas are financial derivatives, investments, and corporate finance. He continues to actively publish peer-reviewed research articles in highly visible and respected finance journals. In the classroom, he strives to provide his students not only with the relevant financial theories and analytical tools, but also the practical side of real-world investment practices and portfolio management. He has been actively managing portfolios for nearly 15 years.
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