Harry Mamaysky
Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business, Finance Division
Faculty Director, Program for Financial Studies
Harry Mamaysky
Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business, Finance Division
Faculty Director, Program for Financial Studies
Harry Mamaysky is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, where he serves as the Director of the Program for Financial Studies. He is also on the Steering Committee of the Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Technology. Harry teaches capital markets and asset pricing to MBA, Masters and PhD students, as well as Executive Education courses on the use of text data in finance, and on corporate bonds. He has consulted for a quantitative investment firm and for a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

Melina Denebeim
Co-Director, MS Financial Economics and Program for Financial Studies, Program for Financial Studies

Melina Denebeim
Co-Director, MS Financial Economics and Program for Financial Studies, Program for Financial Studies
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.

Dan Spacher
Associate Director for MS and PhD Programs, MS & PhD Programs Office

Elizabeth Elam
Director for MS and PhD Programs, MS & PhD Programs Office

Michael Johannes
Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business, Finance Division
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.

Kelly Larnach
Associate Director, Career Education and Advising, Career Management Center