Joshua Rosett, the inaugural Curb Family Professor of Business and Law and a George R. Roberts fellow at Claremont McKenna College, will visit the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Tuesday, March 11 to discuss, "Our Most Valuable Asset," a lecture that follows his installation reception and dinner in the Security Pacific Dining Room. The evening begins with a reception at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6. Rosett will be introduced at 6:45. Dinner is by reservation but the lecture is open to the 5-College community.
Rosett, a favorite of accounting and economics students, is widely published on topics such as valuation, human capital, and corporate governance.
Music and film entrepreneurs Mike Curb and Carole Curb Nemoy P'07 principals of The Curb Family Foundation created this new faculty endowment in 2007 to provide CMC students with opportunities to understand common entrepreneurial challenges faced by individuals interested in forming a business and to play a significant role in the College's upcoming campaign.
Rosett graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors in economics from the University of Chicago, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. After his doctoral work, Rosett was the recipient of post-doctoral fellowships at the National Bureau of Economic Research (1988-1990) and the accounting department at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1991-1992). Before joining the faculty at CMC in fall 2003, Rosett served on the faculties of Tulane University, Southern Methodist University, U.S. Business School in Prague, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana.