Richard C. (Rick) Green

Richard Green, the Richard M. and Margaret S. Cyert Chair and Professor of Financial Economics, was a nationally recognized financial economist and longtime professor at the Tepper School of Business, who was highly regarded as a teacher, researcher, and leader.

The only financial economist to serve as president of all three leading scholarly societies in the field, Green served as an associate editor, co-editor, or editor at five different journals, including the editorship of the internationally esteemed Journal of Finance.

 He widely published on a broad range of financial topics and in 2004, co-authored a transformative study that fundamentally altered the prevailing understanding of mutual fund markets and management.

Born in Chicago and raised in Tucson, AZ., Green received his bachelor’s in English at Pomona College before pivoting to earn an MBA and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He joined Carnegie Mellon University’s faculty in 1982 and his positions at the university included head of the Tepper School of Business Ph.D. program (2003-08), Associate Dean for Research (2008-09), and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Research (2009-14). He served as a visiting professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the University of British Columbia. 

Among Green’s numerous honors were two Smith Breeden Prizes for Distinguished Paper in the Journal of Finance, three awards from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, the TIAA-CREF Paul Samuelson Award for Outstanding Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, and the 1996 Tepper School George Leland Bach Teaching Award.