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Michael Yates

Michael Yates

Teaching Professor

Location Room - 424, Stokely Management Center

Department:

Finance

Program:

Full-Time MBA

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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 finance honors 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.

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 research has been published in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, as well as the American Economic Review with his paper “Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives and Evaluation,” which received national media coverage. A highly regarded educator, Yates has earned multiple teaching honors.

Education:

2007 University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., Finance

2002 University of Alabama, M.A., Banking and Finance

2001 University of Alabama, B.S., Commerce and Business Administration

Awards/Honors
  • Allen H. Keally Excellence in Teaching Award, 2025
  • Home Federal Excellence in Teaching Award, 2022, 2023
  • Allen H. Keally Excellence in Teaching Award - Finalist, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Chancellor’s Teaching and Learning Award - Semifinalist, 2022
  • MBA First-Year Faculty Award, 2021
  • MBA Second-Year Faculty Award - Finalist, 2021, 2022
  • Top Professor Award, 2020
  • Fischer Black Distinguished Finance Professor Award, 2019
  • Faculty Recognition Award for Distinguished Contributions in Teaching, 2018
  • Colonial Company Teaching Excellence Award, 2008, 2009
  • Student FMA Professor of the Year, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Fred Moore Assistant Instructor Award for Teaching Excellence, 2006