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 Robert
L. Finley
Office: Dana 204
Phone: 704-337-2396
Email:
finleyr@queens.edu
Bob Finley was educated
at the University of Oklahoma, earning B.B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in
economics and finance. Prior to joining the Queens College faculty in 1981,
he was a member of the faculties at the University of South Florida and
Kansas State University.
Bob holds an endowed Dana Professorship and has
been awarded both the Fuqua Distinguished Educator and the Grier
Distinguished Professor awards at Queens College. He served as the
chair of the school of business at Queens from 1988 to 1995, the period
marking the business school’s greatest growth and its naming in honor of
Hugh McColl. In the McColl School, he is responsible for teaching
corporate finance and business strategy/policy in both graduate business
programs.
In the past, he has
served as staff editor for The Academy for Information Decision Sciences and
published in numerous scholarly journals. Currently he is retained to
review graduate finance texts and casebooks for both Simon & Schuster and
for Dryden Press. His current consulting interests focus on valuing wholly
owned subsidiaries of large service companies and on providing financial
analysis counsel and executive development to senior executives faced with
critical financial decisions.
As a principal in Kincaid, Finley and
Associates, an economic consulting firm, he has provided consulting
expertise in valuation of businesses, economic growth projections, and
litigation issues. He has consulted with and presented development seminars
for such firms as Ford Motor Company, Eastern Airlines, the U.S. Department
of Commerce, Massachusetts Mutual Life Association, New York Life
Association, RIHT Mortgage, Hewlett Packard, Jefferson-Pilot, Inc., Royal
Insurance, the Southwest Florida Comprehensive Health Planning Council, and
various law firms, banks, hospitals and venture capital firms in Texas and
New York.
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