Tipton R. Snavely Professor of Business Administration and Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship Chaplinsky teaches the courses "Corporate Financing" and "Entrepreneurship and Private Equity" in Darden’s MBA program. She is perennially recognized for her outstanding teaching and was voted Outstanding Professor in 2007 and faculty marshall in 1996. She has authored or coauthored more than 60 pieces of course material.

Her research interests are primarily in capital raising and corporate finance with specialized interests in private equity, security issuance, capital structure, PIPEs and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). She is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business and Financial Management.

Before coming to Darden in 1994, she was a visiting associate professor at Northwestern University, where she was also named the Kellogg Outstanding Professor, and was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She holds her doctorate in business economics from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.

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