Rate My Professor Nicole Boyson

Nicole Boyson, Professor of Finance, Group Chair of the Finance group, and Interim Department Chair at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, joined the faculty in 2004. She holds a Ph.D. in Finance with a minor in Economics from The Ohio State University (1998), an M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from Case Western Reserve University (1990), and a B.B.A. in Accounting from Kent State University (1983). A Certified Public Accountant, Boyson has eight years of prior industry experience at KPMG Peat Marwick, Third Federal Savings and Loan Association of Cleveland, Pension Consulting Services, and Ernst & Young. Her academic appointments include Assistant Professor of Finance at Purdue University (1998-2003), Assistant Professor at Northeastern University (2003-2004), Visiting Professor at Brandeis University (Fall 2019), and progressive roles at Northeastern such as Riesman Research Professor (2004-2012), Associate Professor with tenure (2010-2013), Full Professor (2013-present), William J. Conley Faculty Fellow (2009-2011), Patrick F. and Helen C. Walsh Research Professor (2019-2021), and Co-Director of the Part-Time MBA Program (2012-2018).

Boyson specializes in institutional investors, hedge fund activism, regulatory arbitrage, financial crises, liquidity shocks, and mutual funds. Her scholarship, with over 2,696 citations on Google Scholar, appears in top journals including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Select publications are “Hedge Fund Contagion and Liquidity Shocks” (2010, Journal of Finance, with René M. Stulz and Christof W. Stahel), “Why Don’t All Banks Practice Regulatory Arbitrage? Evidence from Usage of Trust-Preferred Securities” (2016, Review of Financial Studies, with Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz), “Activism Mergers” (2017, Journal of Financial Economics, with Nickolay Gantchev and Anil Shivdasani), “Hostile Resistance to Hedge Fund Activism” (2019, Review of Financial Studies, with Pegaret Pichler), and “How Does Past Experience Impact Hedge Fund Activism?” (2021, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, with Linlin Ma and Robert Mooradian). She has received Northeastern University Summer Research Grants (multiple years), awards from PAAMCO and BSI Gamma Foundation, the D’Amore-McKim Best Teacher Award (2011, 2016), 2020 Poets&Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor recognition, and several Financial Management Association best paper awards and finalists. Boyson teaches Investments, Alternative Investments, and Fixed Income. She serves as co-editor of Financial Analysts Journal (2021-present), associate editor of Journal of Corporate Finance (2018-2021) and Financial Review (2018-present), director of the Eastern Finance Association (2021-present), and program committee member or track chair for Western Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Eastern Finance Association, and others.