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David S. Scharfstein

Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking

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David S. Scharfstein is the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School.   His research focuses on banking, financial distress, risk management, corporate investment and venture capital. He teaches a course on private equity in the MBA program and a Ph.D. course on corporate finance in Harvard's economics department. 

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