Manju Puri
J. B. Fuqua Professor of Finance


 

Manju Puri is the J. B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Professor Puri was earlier Associate Professor of Finance at Stanford Business School, which she joined after earning her Ph.D in finance at New York University. Professor Puri has been an executive and consultant in the banking industry.  Her research interests are in the area of empirical corporate finance and financial intermediation, with focus on commercial banks, investment banks, venture capital and entrepreneurship.

Professor Puri has published widely in the leading finance journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies.  Her research has won multiple awards including two Western Finance Association best paper awards, and two Fama-DFA awards in Journal of Financial Economics.  Professor Puri is a co-editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and serves as associate editor of several journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research and Journal of Financial Services Research.  She is a Research Faculty affiliate with the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Her work has been supported by the FDIC, National Science Foundation, and Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

Professor Puri teaches an elective she created on “Raising Capital” for the MBA students at Fuqua. She also teaches a Ph.D class on Empirical Corporate Finance and has taught Advanced Corporate Finance, and Venture Capital Financing at Fuqua and Stanford Business School.

 

Courses Taught at Fuqua

1. Finance 458 - Raising Capital: Financial Instruments, Institutions, and Strategy.

2. Finance 451: Advanced Corporate Finance

3. BA 552.01 Ph.D Finance II: Empirical Corporate Finance

 

Teaching Material Developed

1. Resurgent India Bonds Case

2. The "Venture Capital Game," a web-based simulator developed while I was at Stanford University. To get permission to use this game email Sam Wood at swood@dnai.com

- Overview of the Venture Capital game

- Using the Venture Capital Game to teach topics in finance.