Dr. Nitzan Weiss:

 PhD, Graduate School of Business (FINANCE, with HONORS), Columbia University, NY. Dr. Weiss holds the position of Professor of Finance and Accounting at NYIT. Prior to joining NYIT, Dr. Weiss worked on a full-time basis for the Columbia Graduate School of Business, first as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor.

Dr. Weiss held several administrative positions within NYIT, including: Associate Dean and MBA Program Director, Treasurer for the AAUP chapter at NYIT, Chairperson for the department of Accounting and Finance, Chaired the Curriculum and the Personnel Committees and served, for several years, as the Coordinator for the MBA Program in Vancouver, Canada. He has published in American and European professional journals and he was an Associate Editor of the American Economist. He is working on models for the valuation of equities and also on the modeling of spot-futures-options valuation interrelationships. His other current research focuses on analytical aspects of the relationships between economic values and accounting information. Dr. Weiss worked as a Deputy Director of a Planning-Programming-Budgeting Unit and previously was also a Senior Organization & Methods Analyst at the Ministry of Finance, Jerusalem, Israel. He has also lectured in executive forums and participated in consulting and training for financial institutions.

Courses Taught on Regular Basis:

FINC 601 - Financial Management

FINC 705 - International Finance

FINC 715 - Futures Markets and Contracts

FINC 720 - Advanced Corporate Finance

FINC 725 - Options Markets and Instruments

FINC 730 - Short-Term Finance

FINC 735 - Investment Principles and Policies

FINC 741 - Portfolio Management   

ACCT 595 Financial Accounting

ACCT 601 - Managerial Accounting

ACCT 702 - Intermediate Financial Accounting  

Other Courses Taught:

QANT 601 - Quantitative Methods II

ECON 601- Managerial Economics

MBAC 820 – Comprehensive Seminar

Microeconomic foundations of Finance Theory

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics

Statistical Decision Theory