Yuhai Xuan is an Assistant Professor in the Finance Unit of the Harvard Business School.  He currently teaches Corporate Financial Management in the second year of the MBA program and Finance for Senior Executives in the Executive Education program.  He has previously taught the required finance course in the first-year MBA program.  His research interests are in the areas of empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, and behavioral finance.  Professor Xuan holds an A.M. and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.  His employers prior to graduate school include HSBC and Microsoft Corporation.