Barbara Pécherot Petitt joined CERAM Sophia Antipolis as Professor of finance in September 2006. Graduated from EDHEC, she holds a doctorate in finance from the University of Grenoble. She started her career as a consultant at Financial Services and Management Development (FSMD) in London. She subsequently spent six years as a professor of finance at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale (Arizona), where she taught in the MBA/EMBA programs and where she received the Faculty Excellence Award in 2004. Her areas of expertise include corporate finance, international finance and valuation, with a special emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. In 2005, she received the Best Paper Award of the International Management Division at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Honolulu.

Education:

• Doctorate in Finance, University of Grenoble, 2000.
• DEA in Management, University of Grenoble, France, 1995.
• EDHEC Diploma, EDHEC, 1994.

Previous Positions:

• August 2001- August 2006, Assistant Professor of Finance, Thunderbird, U.S.
• August 2000 - August 2001, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, Thunderbird, U.S.
• 1995 - 1998 Teaching Associate, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Génie Industriel, France
• 1995 - 1998 Research Associate, Ecole Supérieure des Affaires de Grenoble, France
• 1999 – 2000, Consultant, Financial Services Management Development Limited, U.K.

Publications:

Petitt, B., Mingfang Li., Kannan, Ramaswamy. Business groups and market failures: A focus on vertical and horizontal strategies. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Vol. 23, n°4, pp.439-452, December 2006.

Le Lien entre la stratégie de l’acquéreur et sa performance sur longue période, Banque & Marchés, 74, janvier-février 2005.

Who Drives Unrelated Diversification: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Firms, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 21(4), December 2004 (co-authored with Kannan Ramaswamy and MingFang Li).

The Long-Horizon Performance of Acquiring Firms: The French Evidence, Finance Letters, 1 (5), October 2003.

La méthodologie des études d’événement sur longue période, Banque & Marchés, 59, juillet-août 2002.

La performance sur longue période des acquéreurs français, Banque & Marchés, 46, mai-juin 2000.

Les offres publiques : l’impact du mode de paiement sur la richesse des actionnaires. In: Marchés Financiers et Gouvernement de l’Entreprise, 1998.

Book:

Valuation: Avoiding the Winner’s Curse, co-authored with Kenneth R. Ferris, Prentice Hall, 2002.