Tune into WOL 1450 AM, 95.9 FM or the WOL Livestream on Thursday, November 6 at 10:30 a.m. EDT for Everything Co-op, hosted by Vernon Oakes.
This week’s guest is George G.C. Parker, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Vernon and George will explore the “Kum Ba Yah” spirit in cooperative economics—how the values of mutual aid and democratic participation strengthen cooperatives and sustain their credibility even when other institutions falter.
George G.C. Parker is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he has taught in the MBA Program, the MSx Program and executive education since joining the faculty in 1973. He holds an MBA (1962) and PhD (1967) from Stanford, and previously taught finance at Columbia University from 1967-73.
Parker’s teaching and research focus on corporate finance, financial institutions management and corporate governance, and he has authored many case studies and journal articles in these areas. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford in 1973, Parker was an assistant and associate professor of finance at Columbia University in New York City.
Over his distinguished career, he has earned numerous honors including the 2006 Distinguished Teaching Award at Stanford. Parker was the recipient of the 2000 Robert T. Davis Award for Faculty Lifetime Achievement at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the 2006 Distinguished Teaching Award in the Stanford MBA Program. In addition, Parker serves on four boards of directors of listed, publicly traded companies, one mutual fund company, one privately held company, and one nonprofit organization.