Robert Hamada is the former Edward Eagle Brown
Distinguished Service Professor
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of Finance and former
Dean
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of the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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.
Early life
A
third-generation Japanese American, Hamada was born in
San Francisco, California
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in 1937. He and his family were sent to the
Amache internment camp during World War II due to
Executive Order 9066
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.
Following their release, the Hamada family moved to New York.
Hamada received his
B.A.
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in
chemical engineering
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from
Yale University
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and his
S.M. industrial management, and
Ph.D.
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Finance, in 1959, 1961, and 1969 respectively from the
MIT Sloan School of Management
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.
[http://alum.mit.edu]
See also
*
Hamada's equation In corporate finance, Hamada’s equation is an equation used as a way to separate the financial risk of a levered firm from its business risk. The equation combines the Modigliani–Miller theorem with the capital asset pricing model. It is used ...
References
External links
Chicago GSB Bio
1937 births
Living people
Academics from San Francisco
Japanese-American internees
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
University of Chicago faculty
Yale University alumni
American academics of Japanese descent
Place of birth missing (living people)
Educators from California
American chemical engineers
Engineers from California
Corporate finance theorists
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