Rate My Professor Michael Schill

Michael J. Schill serves as the Sponsors Professor of Business Administration in the Finance area at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Holding a B.Sc. in Accounting from Brigham Young University (1989), an MBA from INSEAD (1992), and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Washington (1998), Schill began his professional career as a management consultant with Marakon Associates in Stamford, Connecticut, and London. He joined academia as an Assistant Professor at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Riverside from 1998 to 2001. Since 2001, he has been at Darden, progressing through Assistant Professor (2001-2007), Associate Professor (2007-2014), Professor (2014-2019), and his current endowed position since 2019. Schill has also served as a visiting fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2009-2016), and the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne (2008).

Schill's research addresses empirical issues in corporate finance, investments, and international finance, with key contributions on topics such as the asset growth effect, cross-listing decisions, post-acquisition returns, and foreign currency debt issuance. His publications feature prominently in top-tier journals, including "Asset Growth and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns" with Michael Cooper and Huseyin Gulen in the Journal of Finance (2008, finalist for the Smith Breeden Prize), "Cross-Listings and the Dynamics between Credit and Equity Returns" in the Review of Financial Studies (2020), and "Nonlinearities and a Pecking Order in Cross-border Investment" in the Journal of Banking and Finance (2024). He co-authored the widely used textbook Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation (8th edition, 2018) with Robert F. Bruner and Kenneth M. Eades and has developed over 30 teaching cases. In teaching, he delivers the core finance course and the Financial Trading elective in the full-time MBA program. Among his awards are the Wells Fargo Award for Excellence in a Case Series (2018), multiple Wachovia Awards for research and course materials, and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators Best Business Valuation Research Paper award (2009).