Financial Analysts Journal Editorial Team

Professor Nicole Boyson has been at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University since 2004 and currently serves as the department chair. She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from The Ohio State University, an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, and a BBA from Kent State University. Her research and teaching interests are in the area of institutional investors, conflicts of interest among investment advisors, banking, and hedge fund activism. She has published her research in the top finance journals and is an active presenter and discussant at conferences, both academic and practitioner.

Prior to joining the DMSB faculty in 2004, Professor Boyson was an Assistant Professor at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, she was a manager for Ernst & Young, the VP of Investments for Pension Consulting Services, an analyst for Third Federal Savings and Loan, and a senior accountant at KPMG Peat Marwick.

A Certified Public Accountant, Professor Boyson currently serves on the Board of the Eastern Finance Association. She has been a member of numerous program committees of professional organizations and frequently acts as an ad-hoc referee for several academic journals. Professor Boyson was named a Top 50 Undergraduate Business School Professor in 2020 by Poets and Quants and was the D’Amore-McKim Best Teacher in 2016.