Lecturer| Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Economic Analysis & Policy | Finance
About
At Berkeley Haas, Greg La Blanc teaches primarily in the areas of finance and strategy in the MBA and Masters of Financial Engineering programs and in Executive Education. La Blanc has also worked in competitive intelligence and litigation consulting and has advised consulting teams in finance, marketing, and strategy. His research interests lie at the intersection of law, finance, and psychology, in the area of business strategy and risk management. La Blanc is the recipient of teaching awards including the Earl F. Cheit Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Berkeley EWMBA Graduate Instructor of the year.
La Blanc received a BA (History, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) and a BS Economics (Business Administration) from the University of Pennsylvania, where he continued his education as a University Scholar and graduate fellow, studying in the schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, and Law. He later pursued a JD at the George Mason University and an LLM at UC Berkeley Law School. La Blanc has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in all areas of business. Prior to arriving at Berkeley Haas in 2005, La Blanc taught at Wharton, Duke, and the University of Virginia.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Data Analytics
- Blockchain
- Cryptocurrency
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Behavioral Law and Economics
- Alternative Investment Strategies
- Data and Analytics Strategy
- Business Model Innovation
- Evolutionary Decision Theory
- Behavioral Corporate Finance
- Jeffrey Rachlinski. In Praise of Irrational Investors. In The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior, edited by Vernon Smith.
2005
At Haas since 2005
2005 – present, Lecturer, Haas School of Business and Berkeley Law
1999 – 2005, Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Virginia
1995 – 1999, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Duke University
1994, Lecturer, Departments of Finance and Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Faculty Director at Berkeley Fintech Institute
UC Berkeley Presidential Teaching Fellow
2009
Earl F. Cheit Award for Outstanding Teaching
2009
Haas EWMBA Core Graduate Instructor of the year
2004 – 2005
John Olin Fellow
Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley
2004 – 2005
Robert Levy Fellow in Law and Economics
George Mason University School of Law
1996 – 1999
Mellon Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
University Scholar
University of Pennsylvania
- Data Analytics Gains Prominence in MBA Programs, Find MBA, 04/11/2022
- How recent technology developments and transformations in AI in the education industry have been affecting UC Berkeley, CIO Applications, 07/14/2021
- Education: at university, can technology replace the teacher?, Challenges, 07/08/2020
- Facebook has a lot of questions to answer about Libra, its new cryptocurrency, Business Insider, 06/19/2019
- Data science in MBA programs: Rosy job prospects, Find MBA, 08/06/2018
- For financial peace of mind, look no further than your iPhone, OZY, 07/26/2018
- 7 Ways MBA Programs Work to Make Investment Pay Off, US News, 03/28/2018
- Millennials Ride the Bitcoin Rollercoaster: ‘I Just Did It Kind of Blindly’, SF Gate, 02/15/2018
- The 5 Best US Business Schools For Blockchain Courses, Business Because, 02/14/2018
- Cryptocurrencies Come to Campus, The New York Times, 02/08/2018
- Data science and data strategy, MBA 236
- Data and decisions, MBA 200s
- Analytics of workplace, workforce, and wellness, MBA 296
- Strategic leadership, MBA 299
- Microeconomics for decision making, MBA 201
- Financial Institutions and Markets, MBA 232
- Behavioral Finance, MBA 237
- Introduction to Finance, UGBA 103
- Corporate Financial Management, EWMBA 231
- Competitive Strategy, EWMBA 299E
- Financial Strategy, UGBA 137
- Corporations I, LAW 250A