John A. Haslem

John A. Haslem is Professor Emeritus of Finance in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He served as founding academic affairs dean and founding chair of the finance department. He received the Panhellenic Association's "Outstanding Teacher Award" for his first of a kind mutual funds course. Haslem studied at Duke University, Harvard University, and the University of North Carolina, and he taught at the University of North Carolina and on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. His research has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Financial Analysts Journal and Journal of Investing, among numerous others. He also has contributed six books, including Mutual Funds: Risk and Performance Analysis for Decision Making. Haslem served as personal financial consultant to the Director of Supersonic Transport, U.S. Department of Transportation; and consultant and expert witness to two divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice (including the Supreme Court case, U.S. v. State of Louisiana), and financial consultant to the Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.