Department of Finance

Harley E. Ryan, Jr. (Chip) is an Assistant Professor of Finance and holder of the Louisiana Department of Insurance endowed professorship at the E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Professor Ryan has been at LSU since the summer of 1998. Before joining LSU, he was an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts (1994-1998) and an instructor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia (1992-1994). He also has been employed as a research assistant at Georgia State University (1989-1992) and as a sales engineer for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1983-1989). Professor Ryan has a Ph.D. in Finance and an MBA from Georgia State University, and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. His research interests span a wide array of topics in finance including mergers and acquisitions, the role of financial intermediaries in corporate decision-making, agency theory, capital investment decisions, compensation and incentive systems, and insurance, and he currently teaches classes at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level.

He has published numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, the Journal of Insurance Regulation, the Journal of Business and Economics Studies, Financial Practice and Education, and the Corporate Finance Review. Professor Ryan has made over 50 presentations at national and regional conferences including presentations to the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Financial Management Association, the Wharton Conference on the Performance of Financial Institutions, and the Office of Economic Analysis at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Professor Ryan has provided executive education for candidates preparing for the Certified Turnaround Manager examination to clients such as Arthur Andersen, BBK, BDO Seidman, Ernst & Young, Executive Sounding Board, Glass & Assoc., Jay Alix & Assoc., Pate, Winter, & Stone, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.