Clayton Rose teaches the second year MBA elective, Managing the Financial Firm, a course he created to examine the challenges, opportunities and responsibilities of leadership in the financial services industry. He is also a member of the faculty design team and teaching group for the new first year required FIELD course (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development). He has also taught the required first year course Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the second year elective The Moral Leader.

Previously, he worked at J.P. Morgan & Co., where he headed each of the Global Investment Banking and the Global Equities Divisions, and served as member of the firm's executive committee. He was a founder and architect of the firm's equities business, and during his career at J.P. Morgan had management roles in various securities, derivative and corporate finance businesses, and worked in London. He also had responsibility for and served as an investment committee member of Morgan's private equity business, led Morgan's Diversity Initiative, and represented the firm during the Long Term Capital Management crisis in 1998.

He received his Ph.D. (with distinction) in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. His dissertation examined the persistent racial imbalance on corporate boards. He has also taught strategy at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and the Stern School of Business at New York University. In addition to his doctorate, he has earned an AB and MBA from the University of Chicago, and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania.

He is a director of XL Group plc, a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a director of Public/Private Ventures. He has served on a number of other boards, including Freddie Mac (post-conservatorship) and he chaired the Board of Managers of Highbridge Capital Management, a $22 billion hedge fund owned by JP Morgan Chase, during the financial crisis.

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