Portrait of Hassan Tehranian
Boston College teaching record

Hassan Tehranian

Professor and Griffith Family Millennium Chair

Finance

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Biography

Hassan Tehranian is the founder of the Graduate Finance Program at Boston College (MSF. and Ph.D.,). Currently, he is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance. Tehranian has teaching and research interests in the areas of corporate finance, investments, the effect of deregulation on the structure and efficiency of the banking industry, and portfolio analysis. He has published widely in the fields of portfolio performance, management compensation, bank mergers, government deregulation, and securities return distribution. His research has been published in a variety of scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Services Research, Financial Review, Journal of American Statistic Association, International Journal of Transport Economics, and the Journal of Financial Research. Tehranian is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economics and Business, Review of Financial Economics and Applied Finance Letters . He is a member of the Financial Management Association, the American Finance Association, and the Western Finance Association. In addition, he is a consultant to local and national firms.

Official evaluation summary

4.06 / 5

Based on 384 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

Ratings are this instructor’s response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations, on a scale of 1 to 5.

  • MFIN1021 Fundamentals of Finance
    Instructor rating 4.06 / 5 · Course rating 3.93 / 5 · 384 responses
    Taught Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021

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