People in Finance

Chicago GSB

• Lars Hansen: Father of GMM.
• Eugene Fama: Father of modern finance theory.
• Tobias Moskowitz: Winner of JBC.

Harvard Business School

• John Campbell: Also runs Arrowstreet Capital (?).
• Ken Froot: Head of research at SSgA.

Columbia GSB

• Geert Bekaert: International finance research. A lot on EM equities.

Stanford GSB

Wharton

• Rob Stambaugh

Duke

• Campbell Harvey: Editor of the JF.

MIT

• Andrew Lo: Lots of different research.

NYU

• Jeffrey Wurgler: Some interesting research on sentiment, etc.
• Robert Engle: ARCH, GARCH, etc. Some high-frequency finance stuff, too.

Yale

• William Goetzman: Alpha research.