Donald H. Chew Jr.
Longtime editor of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and author of The Making of Modern Corporate Finance (Columbia University Press, 2025); scholar and practitioner focused on corporate finance, governance, and the role of markets in allocating capital.
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Feb 18, 2026 • 1h 14min
Donald Chew, "The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)
Donald H. Chew Jr., longtime editor and corporate finance scholar, traces the history of modern corporate finance and its key thinkers. He explores why US markets power growth, the rise and fall of conglomerates, activist investors and private equity, and tensions between short-term pressures and long-term investment. Conversations touch on leverage, governance differences across countries, and how investor quality shapes firm strategy.
Feb 18, 2026 • 1h 14min
Donald Chew, "The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)
Donald H. Chew Jr., longtime editor of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and author, dissects the ideas that shaped modern corporate finance. He traces U.S. market mechanisms that allocate capital, the rise and fall of conglomerates, activist interventions and private equity dynamics. He also contrasts governance models across countries and debates leverage, CEO incentives, and long-term investment pressures.
