Howard Finch

Howard Finch serves as the Sara J. Krawczak Chair in Financial Management and Professor of Finance at Samford University's Brock School of Business within the Department of Economics Finance and Quantitative Analysis. He has held faculty and administrative positions at Samford since 2011, following prior appointments at Florida Gulf Coast University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

His academic credentials include:

• BBA from the University of North Georgia
• MBA from Mercer University
• MA and PhD from The University of Alabama

Finch's research centers on financial valuation methodologies, real asset appraisal techniques, real estate finance systems, and innovative finance pedagogy approaches. His scholarly work appears in publications including Managerial Finance, Journal of Economics and Finance Education, Journal of Housing Research, and Real Estate Finance. As an educator, he teaches managerial finance in the MBA program alongside undergraduate courses in financial management and investment strategies, bridging theoretical frameworks with practical applications in dynamic market environments.