Meet Professor Larry Gorman
I'm currently teaching a brand new equity analysis class (BUS-431) where the focus is in building state of the art valuation models. We're using the leading MBA textbook, and expanding its coverage to include the most up to date modeling techniques. I'm also teaching a section of the fundamentals course each year (BUS-342), a section of the Financial Engineering (BUS-444) class, and running the Senior Project class wherein the students manage a $450,000 (real money) portfolio of stocks.
On the research front, I'm working with two colleagues in Thailand on an interesting piece that investigates how stock prices move on ex-dividend days in 30 different countries. Since these countries have different tax structures between dividends and capital gains, the stock prices should move by different amounts in each country (in theory). Our paper is putting the theory to the test, and then attempting to explain why the fit is not perfectly in line with theory. It's a reasonably exciting piece because there does not appear to be any research on price performance surrounding dividend payments that covers this many countries at once.
On the personal front, I've been living on my boat (a 41' Roughwater motor yacht) for about three years in Morro Bay. After a lot of repair and maintenance (and some very beat up hands), the boat is finally in fantastic shape. I've been taking it out most weekends searching for whales and dolphins to play with (the dolphins love to ride on the bow of the boat). My girls (Mack 13, Anna 11) love it, and now want to throw birthday parties on the boat. I'm happy to accommodate. I still teach each August in Bangkok, Thailand thru a joint program with Northwestern and Wharton. I've been fortunate enough to backpack around Thailand and the surrounding countries for about a month before I go to work in Bangkok. Last year I made it into Cambodia and saw one of the Seven Wonders of the World - Angor Wat - which was amazing. This year I hope to head off to Burma and/or Laos before I settle down in Bangkok.