Biography

Krishnamurthy Subramanian (Subbu) joined the Goizueta Business School faculty in 2005 after completing his Ph.D. in Finance at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Subbu's research examines, theoretically and empirically, the financing choices and boundary decisions in human capital intensive firms. Prior to joining GBS, Subbu has worked with J P Morgan in Interest Rate Derivatives strategy, with the largest Indian Financial Institution ICICI Bank in Fixed Income Research and with the Indian Fixed Income Markets regulator FIMMDA as Executive Assistant to the Chairman.

Subbu has designed the elective course “Corporate Governance and Restructuring” and teaches this course to the MBAs and BBAs. He also teaches Corporate Finance Theory to Finance PhD students.

Publications

• "Bankruptcy Codes and Innovation," Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies
  – joint with Viral Acharya (Stern School of Business, NYU and London Business School)

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  • Winner of Citigroup Best Paper Award at Corporate Finance Research Conference, ISB, 2007
  • Runner-up Best Paper at Mitsui Life Conference at Michigan Ross School of Business, 2007
• "Term Structure Estimation in Illiquid Markets," Journal of Fixed Income, June 2001

Working Papers

• "Firm Boundaries in the New Economy: Theory and Evidence"
• "A Theory of Financing of Knowledge Assets"
• “Corporate Governance and Innovation”
  • Joint with Haresh Sapra (Chicago GSB), and Ajay Subramanian (Georgia State University)
• “Law and Project Finance”
  • Joint with Frederick Tung (Emory Law School) and Xue Wang (Goizueta Business School)
• “Labor Laws and Innovation”
  • Joint with Viral Acharya (Stern School of Business, NYU and London Business School) and Ramin Baghai-Wadji (London Business School)
    

Areas of Specialization

• Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
• Organizational Economics

Achievements and Honors

• Citigroup Best Paper award of $5000 at Recent Advances in Corporate Finance – Summer Research Conference in Finance at Indian School of Business, 2007
• Runner-up Best paper at Mitsui Life Conference on Corporate Finance at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 2007
• Road for the Entrepreneurial Economy Grant of $17000 by Georgia Research Alliance and Kauffman Foundation, 2007
• Awarded grant of $28,000 by the University Research Committee, Emory University, 2008
• President’s Commission on Race and Community Grant, 2007
• Marquis Who's Who in the World (a list of 57,000 leaders across all fields over 215 countries), 2007
• The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Scholar, 2005
• Outstanding Teaching Awards, Executive MBA programs at Singapore and Barcelona, Chicago GSB, 2004, 2005
• American Finance Association's Promising Young Scholar Grant, 2003
• Placed in Roll of Honor as top ranker at IIM Calcutta, 1999
• Exide India and BPL India awards for outstanding overall performance at IIM Calcutta, 1998, 1999
• IIM Director's medal for "Most Progressive Outlook to Management Problems", 1999
• Research Grant, Center for Research in Security Prices, 2002
• Corporate Governance and Restructuring, Fulltime MBA 2007, Teaching Rating 4.89/5.0
• Corporate Governance and Restructuring, Fulltime BBA 2007, Teaching Rating 4.52/5.0
• Corporate Governance and Restructuring, Fulltime MBA 2006, Teaching Rating 3.96/5.0

Academic Background
PhD, Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2005
MBA, Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2005
MBA, Finance, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, 1999
B. Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1994