Faculty and Research

David Scharfstein is the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking at the Harvard Business School. He was the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Professor of Management and Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 1987-2003 and Assistant Professor at HBS from 1986-1987. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Professor Scharfstein has done research on a variety of topics in finance including corporate investment, risk management, financial distress, banking, and venture capital.  He has served as Editor of the RAND Journal of Economics and Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and The Review of Financial Studies and as a Director of the American Finance Association. 

Professor Scharfstein has taught courses in corporate finance in the MBA, Ph.D. and executive education programs at HBS and MIT, and now teaches a course on private equity. Professor Scharfstein has a Ph.D in Economics from MIT (1986) and an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University (1982).

Curriculum Vitae