John Paglia

Dr. John Paglia has taught MBA-level finance at Pepperdine for fourteen years, performed business valuations for privately-held companies, and testified on economic damage and valuation matters. His research has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek and MSNBC, just to name a few. He's a frequent speaker on the topics of privately-held company cost of capital, valuation, access to capital, and financing and deal trends at valuation and M&A conferences pertaining to small businesses and middle market companies. 

Dr. Paglia founded the award-winning Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project, an initiative to advance ongoing research to understand the true cost of private capital across market types and the investment expectations of privately-held business owners. He has been recognized by the Association for Corporate Growth with an Excellence in M&A Award, and the Alliance for Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors and Grant Thornton with a Thought Leader of the Year Award for his work with the Project.

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Research and Scholarship

• Paglia, J. K., Robinson, D. T. (2017). Measuring the Role of the SBIC Program in Financing Small Businesses (pp. 54). Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.

• Paglia, John, and David Robinson. "Measuring the Representation of Women and Minorities in the SBIC Program." Library of Congress, Federal Research Division (2016). 1-43.

• Paglia, J.K. Part I: Appraiser vs. Real World Debates: How Many Appraisers Can Dance on the Head of the Private Capital Markets? Business Valuation Review, 35.1 (2016).

• Bowden, Adley, Maretno Harjoto, John Paglia, and Mark Tribbitt. "On Venture Capital Fund Returns: The Impact of Sector and Geographic Diversification." Journal of Accounting and Finance 16.1 (2016): 1+. Print.

Media Appearances

As associate dean, Dr. John Paglia leads the design and delivery of evening and weekend business degree programs for working professionals, as well as oversees student recruitment for these programs and the school-wide marketing, communications and public relations functions. Dr. Paglia also serves as director of accreditation for the business school and most recently served as chair of the Finance and Accounting Department. His research has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek and MSNBC, just to name a few.

Dr. Paglia has taught MBA-level finance at Pepperdine for fourteen years, performed business valuations for privately-held companies, and testified on economic damage and valuation matters. He founded the award-winning Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project, an initiative to advance ongoing research to understand the true cost of private capital across market types and the investment expectations of privately-held business owners. He has been recognized by the Association for Corporate Growth with an Excellence in M&A Award, and the Alliance for Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors and Grant Thornton with a Thought Leader of the Year Award for his work with the Project.

Dr. Paglia is a frequent speaker on the topics of privately-held company cost of capital, valuation, access to capital, and financing and deal trends at valuation and M&A conferences pertaining to small businesses and middle market companies. In addition to authoring Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project reports and economic forecasts, his other research addresses financial contracting characteristics, discounts for lack of marketability (liquidity), the private cost of capital model and financing choices for privately-held companies. His research has been published in a number of journals, including the Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis, Business Valuation Review and Journal of Wealth Management.