Email: rhiggins(at)uw.edu
Foster School of Business
University of Washington
Box: 353227
Seattle, WA 98195-3226
Unless a company is about to go out of business, its value is in the income stream it generates, and its assets are simply a necessary means to this end. The best possible company would be one that produced income without any assets. Short of this fantasy, financial performance improves as asset turnover rises.
Robert Higgins
- Professor Emeritus of Finance
Education
- PhD Stanford University (1969)
- MBA Harvard University (1965)
- BS Stanford University (1963)
Academic Expertise
- risk management
Current Research
- Corporate foreign exchange exposure
Positions Held
- Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington since 2011
- At the University of Washington since 1967
- Visiting Professor at Koblenz School of Corporate Management in Germany, 1995, & 1999
- Visiting Professor at University of Virginia, 1992-1993
- Visiting Professor at IMEDE in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1974-1975
- Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford, 1972
Consulting
- Seafirst Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and Bank of America, bank lending decisions
- Various companies, corporate finance and international financial management
- Various companies, expert witness on business valuation and capital costs in regulated industries
Honors and Awards
- Lex N. Gamble Family Award for Excellence in Case Development and Curriculum Innovation, 2008
- Executive MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, North America option, 2008
- Executive MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, Regional option, 2006, & 2008
- Evening MBA Elective Professor of the Quarter for Winter, 2005
- PACCAR Award for Teaching Excellence, 2003
- MBA Elective Professor of the Year, 2003
- MBA Elective Professor of the Quarter for Winter, 2003
- UW Alumni Fund Award, Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, 1991
- Seven MBA Professor of the Year Awards
- Five EMBA Excellence in Teaching Awards
Academic Service
- Academic director of MBA programs, 1996-1999
- Education director of Pacific Coast Banking School, 1984-2995
- Associate Dean for Academic Programs, 1984-1987
- Director of the Center for the Study of Financial Management, 1990-1993
- Managing editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1979-1984
- Associate Editor of Global Finance Journal, 1989-1991