Marie Dutordoir is a Professor of Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven (2006) and spent the final year of her doctorate as a visiting scholar at Columbia Business School. Prior to joining Manchester Business School in 2009, she was an Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management.
Marie’s research focuses on corporate finance, including corporate securities issuance, mergers and acquisitions, the role of short selling in corporate financial decisions, and corporate social responsibility. She also works on topics at the intersection of finance and other business disciplines such as accounting, marketing, and supply chain management. Her research has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Operations Management, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. She regularly presents at major international conferences and serves as a reviewer for top academic journals.
Marie teaches corporate finance and research methods across undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA, PhD, and executive education programmes, and has supervised numerous PhD students. She is currently Director of AMBS’s Full-time MBA and previously served as Head of the Accounting and Finance Division and Postgraduate Research Director.