Program Leadership
Harry Mamaysky
Harry Mamaysky is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Financial Economics Program and of the Program for Financial Studies. Harry teaches capital markets, asset pricing, natural language processing, and big data analytics to MBA, Masters and PhD students, as well as Executive Education courses on wealth management and investing.
Melina Denebeim
Ms. Denebeim co-directs the Program for Financial Studies (PFS) and the Master of Science in Financial Economics degree program (MSFE). She joined CBS in 2014 after eight years in capital markets and investment banking roles, including Credit Suisse and Guggenheim Securities. In the MSFE program, she teaches effective communication seminars for EMBA and MBA students, and she facilitated an NYC immersion course titled “Creative Destruction in Financial Services”. She also co-authored a Columbia CaseWorks technical note on LBO Valuation.
Michael Johannes
Professor Johannes’s research analyzes the empirical content of fixed-income and derivative securities pricing models. He is particularly interested in developing econometric methods to investigate models with jumps and stochastic volatility. Johannes teaches the elective Capital Markets and Investments.
Teaching Faculty
Michael Johannes
Professor Johannes’s research analyzes the empirical content of fixed-income and derivative securities pricing models. He is particularly interested in developing econometric methods to investigate models with jumps and stochastic volatility. Johannes teaches the elective Capital Markets and Investments.
Harry Mamaysky
Harry Mamaysky is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Financial Economics Program and of the Program for Financial Studies. Harry teaches capital markets, asset pricing, natural language processing, and big data analytics to MBA, Masters and PhD students, as well as Executive Education courses on wealth management and investing.
