Dr. Steiner holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Arizona. He also has an MS in Finance and a BA in Economics.
Praised for his unique ability to deliver inspiring and highly informative courses and seminars. Dr. Steiner can take complex concepts and simplify them.
He has more than 15 years of experience developing and delivering finance, accounting and economics courses and seminars to corporate managers, graduate learners and undergraduate learners.
Dr. Steiner has developed courses for both on-line and traditional universities and currently holds a faculty position at Capella University, a major online university. He works with a number of other on-line universities and educational organizations. He has developed and presented seminars for several major corporations.
He has a depth of knowledge on business topics with many high quality publications in prestigious academic journals including:
"Does stock option-based executive compensation induce risk-taking? An analysis of the banking industry"
- Journal of
Financial Research
"Are all security analysts equal?"
- Journal of
Financial Research
"An agency analysis of firm diverisification:
consequences of discretionary cash and managerial risk
considerations"
- Review of Quantitative Finance and
Accounting
"Employee happiness and corporate finance performance"
- Financial Practice and Education
"Optimism biases among brokerage and non-brokerage
firms equity recommendations: agency costs in the
investment industry"
- Financial Management
"The corporate sell-off decision of diversified firms"
- The Journal of Financial Research
"A re-examination of the relationships between
ownership structure, firm focus, and Tobin's Q"
- Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics
“Down to earth, direct explanations”
“Impactful, fast-paced, excellent focus”
“Dr. Steiner made the class enjoyable. His presentation and delivery was full of passion, energy, and contagious”
“Tom did a great job of presenting the information in a way I could understand and apply it”
