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Craig Everett Assistant Professor of Finance

Craig Everett, PhD

Assistant Professor of Finance
Director‚ Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project
Graziadio Business School

Biography

Dr. Craig R. Everett is an assistant professor of finance at Pepperdine University's Graziadio Business School and director of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project. His teaching and research interests include entrepreneurial finance, private capital markets, business valuation, and behavioral corporate finance.

Dr. Everett has over twenty years of industry experience in management consulting (Accenture) and the aerospace & defense industry (Northrop Grumman). He has also been involved with multiple startup ventures. Dr. Everett has been actively engaged in children's financial literacy initiatives over the years, being both a classroom (K-12) financial literacy volunteer for Junior Achievement and a member of the National Financial Educators Council’s curriculum advisory board.

He holds a PhD in finance from Purdue University, an MBA from George Mason University, and a BA in quantitative economics from Tufts University. Dr. Everett is the author of the best-selling children's fantasy novel, Toby Gold and the Secret Fortune, which incorporates financial literacy topics such as saving, investing, banking, entrepreneurship, interest rates, return on investment, and net worth.

He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, Financial Executives International, and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Dr. Everett is a certified mergers & acquisitions advisor and a registered investment advisor with California. Dr. Everett has been quoted in national financial media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and CNBC.

Education

  • PhD, Purdue University

  • MBA, George Mason University

  • BA, Tufts University

 

Research

Everett, C. R. (2012). Toby Gold and the Secret Fortune (pp. 256). Deadwood, OR: Wyatt-MacKenzie.

Everett, C. R. (2015). Group membership, relationship banking and loan default risk: the case of online social lending. Banking and Finance Review, 7(2).

Kinsman, M. D., Stanley, D. J., Everett, C. R. (2015). The Dogs and Ferraris of the S&P 1500: Winner and Loser Portfolios and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis. International Research Journal of Applied Finance, VI(9).

Everett, C. R., Fairchild, R. J. (2015). A Theory of Entrepreneurial Overconfidence, Effort, and Firm Outcomes. Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 17(1).

Curry-Brooks, C., Paglia, J. K., Everett, C. R. (2014). Crafting a Strategic Financing Everett, C. R. (2014). How Do Small Businesses Pay for a Minimum Wage Increase? Economics and Finance Review, 3(8), 1-9.

Everett, C. R. (2013). Measuring the Social Responsibility Discount for the Cost of Equity Capital: Evidence from Benefit Corporations. Journal of Behavioral Finance & Economics, 3(2), 55-75.

Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate finance
  • Small business finance
  • Entrepreneurial finance
  • Business valuation
  • Crowdfunding

Courses

  • ENTR 663, 6 courses
  • FINC 474, 2 courses
  • FINC 604, 2 courses
  • FINC 614, 4 courses
  • FINC 623, 3 courses
  • FINC 624, 3 courses
  • FINC 630, 15 courses
  • FINC 655, 13 courses.
  • FINC 663, 3 courses
  • PGBS 698, 2 courses