Disclosure of Outside Activities
General disclaimer:
No person or institution with which I am affiliated has any control over what I write, speak, or think. The opinions expressed in my writing and speeches are not endorsed by any person or institution with which I am affiliated.
The purpose of this page is to disclose financial relationships I have outside of the University. Below, I provide an outline of all outside activities I have been involved with (past and present).
1) I have given speeches at conferences (both academic and practitioner) where my travel expenses were reimbursed by conference organizers. In addition, I have received honorariums for presentations, referee work, and editorial work that I have done.
2) Prior to my academic career, I worked as a consultant for Charles River Associates (CRA) in Chicago. In my role at CRA, I was involved in a number of engagements involving third party entities. Since the beginning of my academic career, I have not been involved with any of my former engagements at CRA.
3) I have occasionally worked as an expert consultant and I have been paid for this work. In these matters, my compensation was in no way dependent on the outcome of the case. Specifically, I have prepared expert reports and I have provided deposition testimony.
All of my previous testimony (paid and unpaid) is shown below:
From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of How America Invests: Hearings before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Capital Markets, 119th Congress, June 25, 2026, https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=411135
IN RE DENTSPLY SIRONA, INC. SHAREHOLDERS LITIGATION, United States District Court Eastern District of New York, 18 CIV. 7253 (NG) (PK). Deposition, April 2024.
ECD Investor Group et al., v. Credit Suisse International, et al., United States District Court, Northern District of California, Civil Action No. 1:14-CV-08486 (VM) (SN), Expert Report and Deposition Testimony, January 2017.
4) Occasionally I provide consulting work for Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG); typically, this involves giving a paid 1 hour presentation about current academic research. GLG has no control over what I write, speak, or think.
5) I have been hired as a paid consultant to advise hedge funds and other investment firms on a fixed term basis.
6) I am a co-founder, investor, and officer of Informed Discourse.