Dr. Xuan TIAN is currently Associate Dean and JD Capital Chair Professor of Finance at PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. He is also the “Cheung Kong Scholar” Distinguished Professor, the director of the Entrepreneurial Finance and Economic Growth Research Center and Global Merger & Acquisition and Restructuring Research Center at Tsinghua University National Institute of Financial Research, and the director of the Finance MBA program at PBC School of Finance of Tsinghua University. Professor Tian received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2008, his M.A. from the University of Washington, and his B.A. from Beijing University, China, in 2001.
Professor Tian is an award winning researcher in the areas of corporate finance and financial intermediation with special research interests on venture capital, private equity, corporate innovation, and payout policy. His current research focuses on the role of venture capital and private equity in value creation for entrepreneurial firms and entrepreneurs. Another main area of his research is motivating and financing corporate innovation. He has more than 20 academic papers published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.
Prof. Tian’s single-authored article “The Causes and Consequences of Venture Capital Stage Financing” won the 2011 Jensen Prize (2nd place) for best paper published in the areas of corporate finance and organizations in the Journal of Financial Economics. His article “Disciplining Delegated Monitors: The Consequences of Failing to Prevent Fraud” won the Best Paper Award in Financial Markets and Institutions at the 2012 Financial Management Association (FMA) meetings. Dr. Tian won the Kelley School of Business Research Excellence Award four times. Dr. Tian’s research has been presented at numerous university workshops such as Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College and academic conferences such as the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) meetings, the Western Finance Association (WFA) meetings, the American Finance Association (AFA) meetings, and the American Economic Association (AEA) meetings.
Professor Tian is an Associate Editor of Management Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, China Economic Review, Journal of Financial Stability, and International Review of Finance, and the editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies. He is also a guest co-editor of the Special Issue on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation for the International Review of Finance. He is a committee member of many top academic conferences including the Western Finance Association meetings, China International Conference in Finance, Society for Financial Studies meetings, and Financial Management Association meetings. Professor Tian serves a co-chair of the 2015 Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation around the World Conference sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies. He has served as an ad hoc referee for over 30 academic journals.
Professor Tian was nominated for the Trustee Teaching Award in 2010 for his excellent teaching. He has supervised doctoral students who are now assistant professors at SUNY Buffalo, University of Cincinnati, Beijing University, etc. He has advised numerous undergraduate students. Some of these students continued to pursue graduate studies in schools such as MIT and some landed jobs in financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
