BETTY J. SIMKINS DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE Spears School of Business 336 Business Building Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078-4011 E-mail: simkins@okstate.edu Phone: (405) 744-8625  Fax:  (405) 744-5180

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Welcome to my homepage! I am the Williams Companies Professor of Business and Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance, Spears School of Business, at Oklahoma State University. I have a Ph.D. in Finance from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA from Oklahoma State University, and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arkansas.  For the 2009-2010 academic year at OSU, I am teaching FIN 4363 Energy Finance and FIN4550/BADM5200 Cowboys on Wall Street.  One of my primary goals in teaching is to bridge the theory/practice gap so that students better understand how to apply what they learn in the classroom to their jobs when they graduate.  I have received the Regents Distinguished Teaching Award (2001), the Outstanding OSU MBA Faculty Award (2002) and The Merrick Foundation Teaching Award (2001), among others.

I am active in the finance profession and am co-editor (together with Ramesh Rao and Charles Smithson) of the Journal of Applied Finance as of July 2007. I am also Managing Editor of FMA Online, Past-President of the Eastern Finance Association (EFA), a board member of the Financial Management Association International (FMA) and EFA. Other positions: Editorial Board of the Journal of Financial Education, Advisory Board for the Institute of Finance Case Research, among other activities.  Prior to obtaining my Ph.D., I worked in the energy industry for Williams, Inc. and Conoco, Inc. in the areas of corporate financial planning, research and development, and process engineering. 

My current research interests include enterprise risk management, financial and energy risk management, international finance, and corporate governance. My book on enterprise risk management, co-edited with John Fraser, is forthcoming by Wiley (click on this link for more information). For more information on my current and previous research interests, take a look at "My Vita" and "Working Papers" links below.

Ø Current Courses Taught at OSU are  FIN4363 Energy Finance & FIN4550/BADM5200 Cowboys on Wall Street or "Intro to Wall Street, Investment Banking, & NYC" . I am also teaching a course on Enterprise Risk Management at Trinity College Dublin in the MSc in Finance.

Ø My Vita

Ø My Working Papers and Research Materials 

Ø Some of My Favorite Quotes and Humorous Stories

Ø Photos from Classes and NGEAO

Ø Videos for Journal of Applied Finance Articles

Ø View Video Streaming Files of Guest Speakers and Speakers Taped for FMA Online

Ø View Guest Speakers who have made presentations to my classes

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This page was last updated on August 15, 2009.