Robert Hartwig (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1993) is clinical associate professor of finance and co-director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center. His research focuses on insurance markets and structures, risk management, risk-bearing capital market instruments, the financing of technology risks and venture capital in insurance markets. He makes frequent presentations to insurance industry management, boards of directors, regulators and legislators. Prior to joining the Darla Moore School of Business, he was president and economist for the Insurance Information Institute in New York and in prior positions worked for Swiss Re, the National Council on Compensation Insurance and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University. His professional experience includes expert witness testimony and testimony before numerous congressional and state legislative committees. He holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) credential and speaks frequently in the media on all issues related to insurance markets.
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Robert Hartwig
Jim Scott is a lecturer of finance at the Moore School of Business. His teaching focuses on risk management and insurance. Prior to joining USC, he managed and developed insurance products first at an insurance carrier (Companion Property and Casualty) and then at a surplus lines broker (Coastal Insurance Underwriters). Prior to a career in insurance, he served as a naval officer and attained a master’s in international business at the Moore School. He holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Reinsurance (ARe) and Associate in Surplus Lines Insurance (ASLI) designations.
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JAMES SCOTT
Greg Niehaus is a professor of finance and insurance at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business.
He received his Ph.D. from Washington University in 1985 and held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. He served four years as the senior associate dean for Research and Academics and seven years as chair of the Finance Department at the Moore School. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance, The Accounting Review, Financial Management, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Risk and Insurance and the Financial Analysts Journal. His current research interests include corporate finance, the economics of insurance, corporate pension plans and corporate risk management.
Niehaus has won several teaching awards and has co-authored a textbook, Risk Management and Insurance, with Scott Harrington.
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Gregory R. Niehaus
Helen Doerpinghaus (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1989) is an adjunct professor of finance in the Darla Moore School of Business and professor emerita and deputy provost emerita at the University of South Carolina. She served as a full-time faculty member in finance and insurance from 1987 to 2007. During 2007–17, she held positions in the Office of the Provost, including Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Interim Provost, and Deputy Provost. Since her retirement, she has returned to the classroom to teach risk management and insurance.
Doerpinghaus’s research has been published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Inquiry, Risk Management and Insurance Review, Benefits Quarterly, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Managerial Issues, Journal of Financial and Strategic Decisions, and other journals. She coauthored an introductory textbook (entitled Risk Management and Insurance) and contributed to the text, International Risk and Insurance. She served on several editorial boards including the Journal of Risk and Insurance. She is the past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Southern Risk and Insurance Association. She has received teaching awards including USC’s Michael J. Mungo Teaching Award and the Mortar Board Teaching Award, as well as the Darla Moore School of Business Alfred G. Smith, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has consulted with governmental agencies on employee benefit and insurance policy issues.
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Helen Doerpinghaus
