Michael Yates
Teaching Professor
Location Room - 424, Stokely Management Center
Department:
Finance
Program:
Full-Time MBA
Biography
Michael Yates is a teaching professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business. He also serves as director of the Honors Track in Finance program.
Yates currently teaches honors financial management and honors investments and portfolio management at the undergraduate level and investment analysis and portfolio management in Haslam’s MBA program. A highly regarded educator, Yates has earned multiple teaching honors, including the college’s Allen H. Keally Excellence in Teaching Award in 2025.
He previously served as a clinical assistant professor and faculty director of the graduate finance program at Georgia State University and as an assistant professor at Auburn University. His labor economics paper, “Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives and Evaluation,” was published in the American Economic Review and has been cited in the New York Times, USA Today, Time.com and elsewhere. He has also published pedagogical research in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.