Partners in Business

3520 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3520

Phone: 435.797.2279
Fax: 435.797.3440
Email: partners@usu.edu

Finance Speakers: 2008-2009

 

Frank E. Nothaft

Vice President and Chief Economist, Freddie Mac

Housing and Mortgage Update

Frank E. Nothaft was appointed to the position of chief economist in December 2001 and vice president in March 2004. In this position, Nothaft is responsible for primary and secondary mortgage market analysis and research, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting. Nothaft is also involved in the analysis of affordable lending activities and policy issues affecting the housing industry.

 

 

Tyler Bowles

Professor and Department Head, Economics and Finance, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

Financial Crisis: What Went Wrong?

Tyler J. Bowles is a Professor in and Head of the Department of Economics and Finance at Utah State University. Tyler has the unique qualification of holding a Ph.D. in economics and being a Certified Public Accountant. He has published 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as numerous articles in the popular press. He has been a featured presenter at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountant’s National Conference on Fraud and Litigation Services. 

 

 

Frank Caliendo

Executive Director, Graduate Programs, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

Financial Crisis: What Went Wrong?

Frank Caliendo teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Macroeconomic Theory and Money and Banking. His current research program is in the areas of macroeconomic dynamics and public economics, with a focus on pensions, saving, and household finance. 


 

Jeffrey Doyle

George S. Eccles Chair Capital Markets Research, Associate Professor Accountancy, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

Financial Crisis: What Went Wrong?

Jeffrey T. Doyle, the George S. Eccles Chair in Capital Markets Research in the School of Accoun¬tancy at Utah State University, teaches advanced financial accounting and financial statement analysis. He taught previously at the University of Utah and Stanford University. 


 

Paul Fjeldsted

Finance Lecturer, Huntsman School of Business & former Managing Director of Citi Group Global Markets Inc.

Financial Crisis: What Went Wrong?

Paul started his career in 1986 as an analyst at Citibank in New York City, where he worked two years prior to attending Harvard Business School. Upon graduation from HBS in 1990 he returned to New York City, rejoined Citibank and became a founding member of the emerging markets derivatives desk.


 

LeeAnne B. Linderman

Executive Vice President, Retail Banking, Zions First National Bank

Financial Services and Consumer Self-Protection

LeeAnne is chairman of the Utah Bankers Association. She has ranked among the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking in U.S. Banker magazine, and has received awards from Utah Business magazine, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Utah Commission for Women and Families. Prior to joining Zions Bank in 1992, she held management positions at retail department stores in Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. 


 

Gordon R. Dames

Former President and CEO, Mountain America Credit Union

Managing for Success - Good Times or Bad

Gordon Dames has been President/CEO of Mountain America Federal Credit Union since 1991. Mr. Dames was president/CEO of San Diego County Credit Union for 8 years, and principal examiner for the National Credit Union Administration for 12 years. He served on the Credit Union Task Force, Charter Member/first chairman of CU Mortgage Corporation, and as member of the California Credit Union League Audit Committee. 

 

 

Robert (Bob) DeYoung

Capital Federal Professor in Financial Institutions and Markets, University of Kansas School of Business

The Fall and Rise of Commercial Banking

Robert (Bob) DeYoung is the Capitol Federal Professor in Financial Institutions and Markets at the University of Kansas School of Business. Bob’s research and writings on financial institutions appear regularly in academic, regulatory, and industry publications, and he has delivered lectures based on this work in a dozen different countries.  


 

Lars Peter Hansen

Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Financial Fragility and the Macroeconomy

Lars Peter Hansen is a widely celebrated teacher and researcher. Lars is currently the President of the Econometric Society. In the 1980s Professor Lars Peter Hansen became established as the leading contributor to the development and application of rigorous estimation and testing methods for financial data. His 1982 paper on Generalized Methods of Moments fundamentally altered the way that empirical research is done in finance and macroeconomics. This new methodology led him, with Ken Singleton, to make one of the pioneering contributions to what became known as the “equity premium puzzle.”