Prem Jain

Prem C. Jain, Ph.D., C.P.A., began his academic career in 1984 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a move in 1991 to the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans. In 2002 he accepted his current position as the McDonough Professor of Accounting and Finance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

In addition to his full-time academic positions, Dr. Jain has taught at Monterrey Tech in Mexico and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, and was a visiting scholar for two summers at INSEAD in France. He has taught graduate-level courses in corporate finance, investments, international finance, and financial statement analysis. He has also worked as a financial economist for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in Washington, D.C.

Over his 25-year academic career, Prof. Jain has traveled across the globe to present his research at various conferences and universities. He has published extensively in the most prestigious finance and accounting journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research. His work includes several scholarly articles analyzing stock market and stock futures data. He has also been referenced in the Wall Street Journal and other news media. His research subjects include stock splits, spin-offs, mutual fund advertising, performance of Wall Street superstars, and market efficiency.

At Tulane, Dr. Jain developed a course for MBA students to study traditional value and growth investment strategies, initially developed by Benjamin Graham, David Dodd, and Philip Fisher. The students also study Warren Buffett’s writings and decisions along with contemporary finance research and manage a two-million-dollar portfolio as part of the University endowment. He has frequently taken students and faculty members to Berkshire’s annual shareholders’ meetings. He also invited Warren Buffett to speak to students at Georgetown University. His consulting activities involve investing in common stocks.

Prof. Jain received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and worked as an engineer for two years at Hindustan Motors, an Indian car manufacturing company. Subsequently, he received an MBA (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and worked for two years as a financial analyst for Novartis. He received a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from the University of Rochester, a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and his C.P.A. license from the State of Florida.