On December 6, 2024, the School of Management held a foreign expert lecture in Room 812 of the Administration Building. This lecture invited Associate Professor Feng Zhan from the Dan Management and Organizational Studies at University of Western Ontario in Canada to give a thematic report on Corporate Finance Research and International Journal Publication. Several faculty members and numerous graduate students from the college attended the lecture and engaged in discussions with Professor Zhan.
Professor Zhan holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada, and his main research areas include corporate finance, corporate governance, and financial policies and regulations. At the beginning of the lecture, Professor Zhan analyzed the differences between Chinese and Western capital markets as well as listed companies, and drawing on his personal experience, he provided a detailed analysis of the key points and suggestions for dealing with international journal paper publication, covering topic selection, paper structure, language polishing, and submission strategies.
Professor Zhan also used his current working paper, Winner or Winner’s Curse? Does the Company and Its CEO Benefit from the Internal Competition as an example to elaborate on the research motivation, contributions, and empirical results of the paper, and discussed the applicability of related issues in China with faculties and students.
In the final session, Professor Zhan had an extensive discussion with faculties and students, and patiently answered questions from the audience. Many expressed that they greatly benefited from the lecture in terms of financial research directions and the publication in international journals.
The successful holding of foreign expert lecture not only provided an international learning and communication platform for faculties and graduate students in the School of Management, but also further promoted academic research in the field of corporate finance and the writing and publication of high-level international papers.
