Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Finance
Corporate valuation, natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), industrial organization, M&A, private equity, venture capital
Venture Capital & Private Equity, NLP, Maching Learning, and AI in Finance
PhD and MA, Harvard University, 1991; BA, Northwestern University, 1986
Gordon Phillips specializes in private equity, mergers, and the impact of financial decisions on firms’ strategic decisions. He is a faculty advisor at Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital, where he was the faculty director for five years, reorganizing and helping to expand the previously named Center for Private Equity. Phillips is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and UNSW in Sydney.
His areas of research include computational linguistics, AI and finance, household finance, and corporate finance. His work in AI and finance includes studies of merger synergies and the scope of firms. His corporate finance work includes studies of private equity, mergers, and competition. Phillips’s recent research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has given keynote addresses on Finance and AI in Cyprus, Paris, and Singapore, and he has been the president of the Midwest Finance Association.