Gordon Phillips is the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration and a professor of finance at the Tuck School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and UNSW in Sydney. He received his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. He previously taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), Duke University, HEC Paris, INSEAD, MIT, and Southern Mediterranean University.
His areas of research include computational linguistics, AI and finance, household finance, and corporate finance. His work in AI and finance includes studies of merger synergies and the scope of firms. His corporate finance work includes studies of private equity, mergers, and competition. Phillips’s recent research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has given keynote addresses on Finance and AI in Cyprus, Paris, and Singapore, and has served as the president of the Midwest Finance Association.