Corporate finance – Simon Taylor's Blog

3 Sep 2024

What is a corporation?

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Book recommendation, Course material, Economics | 1

Ahead of teaching corporate finance each year, I like to try to explain what a corporation actually is. * A corporation is a particular way of organising economic activities. What is called a corporation in the US is called a … Continued

Simon is a member of the finance faculty group at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-18 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and he is now Director of the University's Global Executive MBA. An economist and former equities analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup, he teaches on financial markets and institutions, infrastructure finance and the world financial system. He is a Fellow in Economics at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. His book on nuclear power in the UK was published in March 2016.

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