Erik Gordon

Professor Gordon's areas of interest are entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and activism, IPOs, investment banking, financial services, funds, antitrust, securities and financial services regulations, the biomedical industry, transportation, ML, DL, and FinTech. He has served on the faculty of University of Michigan Law School. He served on the faculty and as Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate Division of Business & Management (Carey Business School) at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught in the business and medical schools, and at the University of Florida, where he also served as director of the Center for Technology & Science Commercialization Studies and as Director of MBA Programs. He has served as an adviser or co-founder to numerous companies. He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, BusinessInsider, AXIOS, and other outlets. He also appears on Marketplace and Marketplace Morning Report (in NPR's Morning Edition) and Bloomberg Television and Radio, CNBC, NBC, and PBS. His degrees are in economics and law.  He recently commented on teaching virtually during the pandemic:  https://news.umich.edu/erik-gordon-the-path-less-taken-to-success/