Don M. Chance, Ph.D., CFA
James C. Flores Endowed Chair of MBA Studies
& Professor of Finance
Louisiana State University
ORCID: 0000-0003-4334-4703
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Contact Information: Office: 2909 Business Education Complex Phone: 225-578-0372 Fax: 225-578-6366 email: dchance@lsu.edu (If I do not know you and you email me, please identify yourself and be polite) |
Snail Mail Address: Department of Finance 2909 Business Education Complex Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 |
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Fall 2023
Teaching Schedule: M: 1:30 - 4:20
FIN 7720: The Process and Metthodology of Research W: 1:30 - 4:20
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Fall 2023
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Don M. Chance, Ph.D., CFA, holds the James C. Flores Endowed Chair of MBA Studies and is Professor of Finance at the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. He previously held the William H. Wright, Jr. Endowed Chair for Financial Services at LSU, and the First Union Professorship in Financial Risk Management at Virginia Tech. Prior to his academic career, he worked for a large southeastern bank. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Scotland, and in the U. S.
Professor Chance has had numerous articles published in academic and practitioner journals and has authored four books, including An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management, 10th ed. co-authored with Robert Brooks, Essays in Derivatives: Risk Transfer Tools and Topics Made Easy (2nd ed.), Analysis of Derivatives for the CFA Program, and Financial Risk Management: An End User Perspective. His next book, Foundations of the Pricing of Financial Derivatives:: Theory and Analysis, is co-authered with Robert Brooks, and will be published in 2023 by John Wiley.
He has extensive experience conducting professional training programs, and his consulting practice (Omega Risk Advisors, LLC) serves companies, organizations, and law firms. He has also been heavily involved in the development and authorship of the derivatives and risk management curriculum in the CFA program. In 2015 he received the C. Stewart Shepard Award for his many years of service to the CFA Institute in the development of its educational programs. He is a member of LSU's Supplemental Retirement Plan Oversight Committee, and he chaired the university's promotion and tenure committee for three years.
In his spare time he plays guitar, sings, and performs as a solo guitar & vocal act. He has traveled to more than 50 countries, and in March, 2016 he completed a 26-mile hike on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. He also recently authored a novel, The Assignment, which is set in a university and is available at this link on Amazon. He also publishes a quarterly newsletter for laypersons available here.