Shantanu Dutta is Full Professor in finance and Telfer Fellow in Global Finance. He previously taught at University of Ontario Institute of Technology, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia and Assumption University, Bangkok as a full-time faculty member. Before his career in academe, he served as a Finance Manager and Project Controller at Lafarge - a world leader in construction materials. He has published in Financial Management, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Multinational Finance Journal, Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting, Global Finance Journal, Canadian Investment Review, Corporate Governance - An International Review (CGIR), International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, International Journal of Managerial Finance, Journal of Applied Finance, International Journal of Technology Transfer and International Journal of Global Energy Issues. Professor Dutta has also participated and presented papers in many scholarly conferences. He is a recipient of a SSHRC grant and Barclays Global Investors Canada Research Award (2006) for the best paper on the Canadian security market. He received the 'Highly Commended Award' at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009 and 2014 for a study published in the International Journal of Managerial Finance. He is also a recipient of the Telfer School of Management Research Excellence Award in 2016.
Shantanu Dutta's research focuses on the application of machine learning and natural language processing in financial decisions, mergers and acquisitions, financial irregularities, media coverage and financial decisions, corporate governance, market efficiency, dividend policy and technology management. He is a principal and co-investigator on a number of SSHRC grants and Telfer research grants, which focus on private meetings, financial irregularities and impact of print media and social media on financial decisions.
Professor Dutta teaches finance courses at undergraduate and graduate levels (MBA, PhD) at Telfer. He has taught courses in financial management at the MBA level as well as courses in corporate governance, entrepreneurial finance, mergers & acquisitions, international financial management, and advanced corporate finance applications at other schools before joining Telfer.
From-To | Source | Title | * | ** | Role | Amount |
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2018-2022 | SSHRC | Board Independence and Corporate Private In-house Meetings | R | C | PI | $ 55,000 |
2016-2017 | CPA - Canada Accounting and Governance Research Centre | Information Content of Newswire Articles: Evidence from M&A Activities | R | I | PI | $ 5,000 |
2016 | National Science Foundation of China | Inside the 'Black Box' of Private In-House Meetings: Implications for Fair Disclosure and Insider Trading Regulations | R | F | Co-I | $ 85,000 |
2016 | Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute | Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: An Indo - Canadian Study of Incubator Best Practices | R | G | PI | $ 6,000 |
2014-2016 | Telfer-Sprott Research Fund | Does Value Based Management Performance Affect CEO Turnover and Compensation? | R | I | Co-PI | $ 10,000 |
2014-2016 | SSHRC | Social Media, Investor Sentiment and Initial Public Offerings | R | C | Co-PI | $ 74,718 |
LEGEND:
*Purpose
C: Contract (R and D) | E: Equipment Grant | R: Research Grant | S: Support Award | P: Pedagogical Grant | O: Other, U: Unknown
**Type
C: Granting Councils | G: Government | F: Foundations | I: UO Internal Funding | O: Other | U: Unknown
Role
PI = Principal Investigator | Co-I = Co-Investigator | Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator