Michael J. Schill is a professor in Darden's Finance area. His research spans empirical questions in corporate finance, investments and international finance, and he has been published in such major finance journals as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. Recent research investigates the post-deal returns of acquiring firms, asset-growth effects in stock returns, and gains to foreign stock exchange listing and foreign currency borrowing. He is the author of over 30 case studies and technical notes and co-authored the case textbook Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation, published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Schill teaches the core finance course in the full-time MBA program at Darden and the Financial Trading elective. He has also taught at the University of California-Riverside, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Melbourne. Prior to teaching, he worked as a management consultant with Marakon Associates in Stamford, CT, and London. He holds a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University, an MBA from INSEAD and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.