Email: boehkk at plu.edu
Phone: (253) 535-8722
Office: Morken 319
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Email: boehkk at plu.edu |
LINKS:
Careers in Finance for PLU students (password protected)
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. The Ivey School of Business, U. Western Ontario
M.B.A. The Anderson School at UCLA, Finance
B.A. Colorado College, Economics
BACKGROUND:
Dr. Kevin K. Boeh teaches finance at the School of Business. Prior to PLU, he taught in the M.B.A. programs at Seattle University and at the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Boeh is an experienced investment banker and management consultant. After his B.A. (1990) in Economics from the Colorado College, he worked in management consulting for both A.T. Kearney and Accenture. He completed his M.B.A. (1996, Beta Gamma Sigma) in Finance at UCLA and moved to a career on Wall Street. His investment banking experience includes over 100 successful strategic advisory, public and private corporate finance, and M&A clients for which he has raised over $6B (US), and completed over $5B (US) in M&A transactions. After collecting a couple of million frequent flier miles, he returned to academia and obtained his Ph.D. at the Ivey School of Business. Dr. Boeh's research involves the intersection of corporate finance and corporate strategy with an international emphasis. His international experience has included long-term assignments in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada, plus extensive work with clients in France, Germany, Israel, and Japan among others. He currently serves on the boards of directors of two private companies, runs a merchant banking fund, is on the board of the Tacoma Employee Retirement Fund, and is the Faculty Advisor to the PLU Student Investment Fund. He is a member of FEI, SMS, AOM, FMA, AFA, and AIB, among others.
PROFESSIONAL:
PLU, Faculty of Finance
Seattle U, Adjunct Professor of Finance
Ivey School at UWO, Instructor, MBA program
The Upshot Group, Managing Director
Robertson Stephens Investment Bankers, Vice President
A.T. Kearney, Senior Associate
Accenture, Senior Consultant
PROFESSIONAL - EXTERNAL (BOARDS):
Board, Tacoma Employees Retirement Fund
Board, CQUAY Technologies Inc.
Board, Crystal Asset Management (Advisory)
SERVICE - INTERNAL:
Chair, faculty research committee
Co-chair, faculty search committee
Advisor, Student Investment Fund
Advisor, CFA Global Investment Research Challenge
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
IPOs, M&A, Equities, Convertibles, Foreign Direct Investment
RESEARCH - (SELECTED):
"Contracting costs and information asymmetry reduction in cross-border M&A", forthcoming in Journal of Management Studies, 2010
"Travel time and the liability of distance in foreign direct investment", dissertation, 2008
"Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases", Kevin K. Boeh and Paul W. Beamish, Sage Pubs, 2007
"Advisor influence in strategic choice", SMS 2006
"Cross-border M&A - Fast & cheap?", AIB, 2006
"IPO failure - Not always a bad thing", AOM, 2006
"Agency and advisor quality in IPO withdrawal" (with Southam, C.), AOM, 2006
"The Impact of coalition member quality on IPO outcomes" (with Southam, C.), NFA, 2005
"Batch organizational change - A structural model", ASAC, 2004
"How are resources turned into persistent competitive advantage", (with Gao) ASAC, 2004
RESEARCH - UNDER REVIEW (SELECTED):
"Stacking the deck with a single ace? Legitimacy and IPO completion" (with Southam, C.)
"Travel time and the liability of distance" (with Beamish, P.W.)
RESEARCH - WORKING PAPERS (SELECTED):
"The effects of distance on foreign staffing in FDI" (with Beamish, P.W.)
"Redefining hot IPO markets" (with Southam, C.)
"Acquisition propensity in international M&A"
"Delayed firm action - Sloth or calculation?"
"The effects of securities act rule 155(c) on IPO switching" (with Orcutt, J.)
LINKS - DATA:
FINRA
LINKS - RESEARCH:
SSRN
LINKS - ASSOCIATIONS:
FMA
AFA
SMS
AOM
AIB
CFA
FEI
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