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Finance

Clinical Professor of Finance

Portrait of David Stowell, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management
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Prior to joining Kellogg, Professor Stowell worked at JP Morgan as Managing Director and head of Midwest Investment Banking. He also previously worked at UBS Investment Bank as Managing Director and Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets, at Goldman Sachs as Vice President for Corporate Finance and at O'Connor Partners as Managing Director for Equity Derivatives. He holds a teaching affiliation with the Kellogg School’s Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital.

About David
Teaching interests
  • Investment banking
  • hedge fund and private equity
  • MBA, 1978, Finance, Columbia University
    BA, 1976, Economics, Utah State University
  • Clinical Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2005-present
  • Managing Director and Head of Central Region Investment Banking, JP Morgan
    Managing Director and Head of U.S. Equity-linked Securities Origination, UBS Invertment Bank
    Managing Director and Head of Corporate Transactions, O'Connor Partners
    Vice President, Goldman Sachs
    Senior Vice President, Lehman Brothers
    Assistant Vice President, Bank of America
  • Received The Case Centre's Finance, Accounting and Control Case award for the top global Finance Case Study written during 2019.

Investment Banks, Hedge Funds & Private Equity (FINCX-472-0)

This course focuses on private equity (LBO funds) and hedge funds, their influence on corporate decision-making, and measures taken to counter threats and exploit opportunities represented by these investors. Competition and cooperation between investment banks, LBO funds and hedge funds will also be analyzed. Finally, post-financial crisis changes in regulations governing these institutions will be considered. The course uses six Kellogg cases to facilitate discussion regarding hedge fund and LBO fund investment strategies, and corporate initiatives to either keep these investors at bay or utilize them to enhance shareholder value.