Associate Dean Executive Education Programs and Senior Lecturer in Finance
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Biography
Prof. Haddad has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate finance and M&A. He began his career in 1995 in M&A advisory at JP Morgan Chase in London and later worked in venture capital. Since 2002, he co-heads the M&A Construction team of London-based merchant bank Trevally Capital Advisors Ltd. He received an MBA in Finance from Bayes Business School (London) and a Master in Management from Excelia Business School (French Grande Ecole).
At EHL, Prof. Haddad is Associate Dean in charge of Executive Education Programs and a Senior Lecturer in Finance. He teaches both at undergraduate, post-graduate and executive education levels, including the joint HEMBA program delivered with CEIBS (Shanghai). Topics lectured include corporate finance, hospitality M&A and private equity and venture capital. In addition to teaching, he supervises students’ capstone projects and master’s theses. Prof. Haddad is also a visiting lecturer in corporate valuation and private equity at ESCP Europe (Paris / London).
Prof. Haddad has strong skills in sourcing of transaction opportunities, business and financial analysis, valuation, deal structuring and negotiating. He has built an extensive network of relationships with finance and investment professionals on a global scale, having advised clients and worked on assignments in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US.
Education
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Does the financial market compensate investors for operational Losses?
It is well known that several industries, like the hotel industry, are subject to low frequency high impact events resulting from their operations. However, there is a dearth of academic research in this area. In this paper we propose an innovative...
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Surety bonds and moral hazard in banking
We examine a policy in which owners of banks provide funds in the form of a surety bond in addition to equity capital. This policy would require banks to provide the regulator with funds that could be invested in marketable securities. Investors in...
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Leaving the darkness : the emergence of shadow banks
This paper studies the interaction between bank capital regulation, moral hazard and co-existence of traditional and shadow banks. Bank managers can choose between traditional banking and off-balance sheet special purpose vehicles (SPV), in a setup...
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Government intervention, linkages and financial fragility
We examine how financial integration affects financial stability and what government intervention maximizes stability and well-being, in a setup where depositors can obtain information on the quality of investments in their bank but there is a...
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The hospitality industry and COVID-19: Stock price crash risk
In this paper, we analyze the factors that have determined why certain companies in the hospitality industry managed to buffer themselves from the effects of COVID-19 more consistently than others. In particular, we focus on downside risk measures....
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