Stanford University B.A., 1971

Santa Clara University M.B.A., 1979

University of Chicago Ph.D., 1987

Member UNH Finance and Budget Committee

Coordinator of UNH College of Business Assessment of Learning process

Advisor to UNH Undergraduate Finance majors

Dean, UNH College of Business, 2008-2011

Elected representative of the College of Business to the University Finance and Budget Committee, (2011-2012)

Established 3-year ‘Fast Track’ B.S. business degree programs for well-prepared UNH applicants, (2010-2011)

Served on committee to hire an Executive Director for Career Services for the University, (2010-2011)

Led and achieved all approvals for substantially redesigned EMBA program that eliminates disciplinary silos and established an integrated, team-taught program appropriate to high-level executives, (2009-2011)

Served as resource for and attended regular meetings of the UNH Board of Governors, (2008-2011)

Reconvened the College of Business Board of Advisors, (2009-2010)

Produced (with Prof. K. Upadhyaya) the study “Economic Impact of the University of New Haven in New Haven County in Fiscal Year 2009,” (2009-2010)

With Dean of Arts & Sciences developed 3+2 Bachelors/MBA programs for several College of Arts and Sciences major degree programs, (2008-2009)

At the request of the UNH President, served on an Expenditure Efficiency Task Force (with the Provost, VP for Finance and VP Human Resources) to make expenditure and planning decisions in the wake of the national economic crisis, (2008-2009)

Member: ex officio, Executive Committee, Financial Services Institute of the Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University, (2005-2007)

Member: Self-Study Steering Committee for Middle States re-accreditation, (2004-2006)

Chair: Institutional Assessment Committee in the University’s Middle States re-accreditation effort, (2004-2006)

Member: ex officio, Board of Overseers of the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science, (2004-2007)

Governor: Peter J. Tobin College of Business Board of Advisors, (2004-2007)

Representative: Peter J. Tobin College of Business to the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration (MAACBA), (2004-2007)

Voting representative: St. John’s University for AACSB International, (2003-2007)

Member: ex officio, Graduate Council of St. John’s University, (2003-2007)

Member: ex officio, University Senate of St. John’s University, (2003-2007)

Presiding officer: Faculty Council, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University, (2003-2007)

Member: ex-officio, of standing committees of the Faculty Council of the Peter J. Tobin College of Business, (2003-2007)

Member: ex-officio, University Personnel Committee, (2003-2007)

Member: Provost’s Council of St. John’s University, (2003-2007)

Member: Executive Planning Committee of St. John’s University, (2003-2007)

Member: Manhattan Task Force of St. John’s University, (2003-2006)

Forecasting

Monetary Economics

Banking

Beta Gamma Sigma, elected 2001

American Economic Association

Financial Management Association

Richard Highfield, Maureen O'Hara and Bruce Smith, "Do Open Market Operations Matter? Theory and Evidence from the Second Bank of the United States," (1996), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 20, No. 1/3

"Forecasting Similar Time Series with Bayesian Pooling Methods -- with application to forecasting European output growth," (1992), in Bayesian Inference in Statistics and Econometrics, (Prem K. Goel and N.S. Iyengar, eds.) Lecture Notes in Statistics # 75, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 303-326

Richard Highfield, Maureen O'Hara and John W. Wood, "Public Ends, Private Means: Central Banking and the Profit Motive 1823-1832," (1991), Journal of Monetary Economics, 28, pp. 287-322

"Bayesian Approaches to Turning Point Prediction," (1990) Proceedings of the Business and Economics Statistics Section, Washington: American Statistical Association, pp. 89-98

Richard Highfield with Arnold Zellner, "Calculation of Maximum Entropy Distributions and Approximation of Marginal Posterior Distributions," (1988), Journal of Econometrics, 37, pp. 195-209

Richard Highfield with Robert Smiley, "New Business Starts and Economic Activity: An Empirical Investigation," (1987), International Journal of Industrial Organization, pp. 51-66

Richard Highfield with A. Garcia-Ferrer, F. Palm and A. Zellner, “Macroeconomic Forecasting with Pooled International Data," (1987), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 5, Number 1, pp. 53-67

Professor of Economics and Finance: University of New Haven, 2008-Present       

Dean: University of New Haven, 2008-2011

Professor of Economics: St. John’s University, 2007-2008

Dean, College of Business, and Professor of Economics: St. John’s University, 2003-2007

Dean, School of Business and Service Professor: University at Albany, 1999-2003

Associate Dean for MBA Programs and Operations and Sr. Lecturer in Economics: Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 1998-1999

Assistant Dean, Director of the MBA Program, and Sr. Lecturer in Economics, Johnson Graduate School of  Management, Cornell University, 1993-1997 

Assistant Professor of Economics: Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 1985-1993

Director of Management Studies: University of San Francisco, 1978-1980

Assistant to the Director of Housing and Food Services, Stanford University, 1976-1978                                     

Procurement Analyst: Stanford University, 1973-1976

Marketing Representative: Burroughs Corporation, 1972-1973

Richard Highfield CV