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Gustavo Manso

Professor | Marie-France and Rene Kern Chancellor’s Chair in Entrepreneurship | Distinguished Teaching Fellow

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Gustavo Manso is a Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business and holds the Marie-France and Rene Kern Chancellor’s Chair in Entrepreneurship. His research focuses on identifying incentives for promoting innovation in organizations. He examines how managerial compensation affects a firm’s innovation activity and he has shed tremendous light on how the structure of scientific research funding influences breakthrough studies.

After teaching for just one semester at Berkeley Haas, Manso received the Earl F. Cheit Award For Excellence In Teaching—the school’s highest teaching award that is selected by students. He is co-founder and past board member of the Finance Theory Group (FTG), a highly respected initiative that gives young professors opportunities to collaborate and present their research in finance theory. Today, the FTG has grown from 30 to 150 members and hosts its bi-annual meetings at top business schools.

Expertise and Research Interests

  • Corporate Finance
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Institutions
  • Financial Markets

Papers, Articles and Publications

Awards & Honors
  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Full-Time MBA Program, 2012
  • Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award, 2009
  • Review of Financial Studies Young Researcher Award, 2009
  • NBER IPE Grant, “Incentives and Creativity” (2007-2008)
Academic Background
  • PhD, Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • MS, Mathematics, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil
  • BA, Economics, Pontificia Universidade Catolica (PUC-Rio), Brazil