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Howard Kaufold

Howard Kaufold, PhD

Vice Dean, MBA Program; Adjunct Professor of Finance, The Wharton School

About Howard

Howard Kaufold is Vice Dean of the MBA Program, and Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before becoming Vice Dean, he served as Deputy Vice Dean of the MBA Program for Executives, and earlier as an Associate Director of Wharton’s full-time MBA program.

He earned his BS in Economics from the Wharton School, and completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University. His published papers have dealt with valuing leveraged buyouts and re-capitalizations, hedging interest and exchange rate risk of foreign bonds, and the interest rate risk of floating rate notes.

Dr. Kaufold has taught in executive education programs for such corporations as DuPont, General Electric, Merck, and Nomura. He has taught Corporate Finance in the MBA core since 1983, and has twice been awarded Wharton’s Anvil Award for Distinguished Teaching.