Richard Ruback

Richard S. Ruback is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, where his research is currently focused on applied corporate finance, especially on corporate-control transactions and valuation. Ruback has taught a variety of corporate finance courses throughout his career, with particular expertise in mergers and takeovers. Over the last few years, he and Royce Yudkoff have been developing and teaching a new second-year case course, “The Financial Management of Smaller Firms,” and a field course, “Entrepreneurship through Acquisition,” both of which are focused on the entrepreneurial acquisition of smaller firms. Ruback has served as a consultant to corporations on corporate finance issues and has acted as an independent advisor to outside directors. He also served as an expert witness on valuation and security issues.