Rate My Professor Timothy Crack

Professor Timothy Falcon Crack is Professor Emeritus of Finance in the Department of Accountancy and Finance at the University of Otago. He joined the department in 2004 as a chaired full professor of Finance and retired in 2021, maintaining an office at the university to mentor junior faculty and meet with students. Crack completed PhD coursework at MIT and Harvard, earning his PhD in Financial Economics from MIT. He holds degrees in Mathematics with substantial Statistics, Finance, and Financial Economics, along with a postgraduate diploma in Accounting and Finance from Otago, and the Investment Management Certificate from the UK Society of Investment Professionals. Before joining Otago, he taught undergraduate, MBA, and PhD courses at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. In industry, he headed quantitative active equity research for the UK and Continental Europe in the London office of the then-world's largest institutional asset manager. He has consulted independently for the New York Stock Exchange and a foreign government body on financial market investigations.