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Before I ever started this blog, I wrote a short little teaching book titled “Tips and Thoughts on Improving the Teaching Process in College--A Personal Diary.” I wanted to push myself to think about teaching and I wanted to encourage other folks to think about teaching. The book was a bit of work but it seemed like everyone would benefit. When finished, I put it up on web at https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~jhoyle/ and forgot about it. However, the book got a very nice review in The Chronicle of Higher Education and people started sending me questions or suggestions. For a while, I got emails from teachers around the world. What fun. Eventually, I wanted to add to those original essays. I had more thoughts on teaching. Plus, I missed the writing. But, instead of starting a second book, I created this blog which has allowed me to stretch out the thinking and writing process indefinitely. A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with a former student of mine who has g...

I was talking recently with a friend who asked something like: "You have had nearly 33,000 page views on your teaching blog. Which of your entries have drawn the most traffic?" In truth, some entries have had almost no readers while others have had thousands of page views. Not really sure what makes such extreme differences. If you want to go back and check to see the most popular entries over the last 16 months or so, here they are. 1 - What Do We Add? July 22, 2010 2 - Big Mistakes March 26, 2011 3 - Need Some Inspiration? September 13, 2010 4 - What Do You Tell Your Students? August 19, 2010 5 - The $10 Million Question January 16, 2011 6 - The Opening August 24, 2010 7 - Using Power Point Slides March 17, 2010

Aswath Damodaran has written a couple of excellent textbooks (on valuation and corporate finance ), both of which are among my core reference materials. He also wecasts his valuation class at NYU (available here ) But I didn't know that he also has a blog - Musings on Markets . Just a quick glance over the last couple of months gave me several good articles to read: High Dividend Stocks: Do They Beat the Market? Capital Structure: Optimal or Opportunistic? What if Nothing is Risk Free? He doesn't update regularly (but who am I to talk). In any event, check it out. HT: Finance Clippings

I just came across an interesting new blog: the Ideas Report for Serious Investors . It's put out by the Manual of Ideas (a for-fee service) and obviously) geared towards investing. However, it ranges pretty far afield. Check it out.

Thanks to Analyst Forum (one of my regular stops), I just came across a pretty good blog on Private Equity called The Private Equiteer . It has a lot of posts that go through the basics of the private equity world ( here's a list of many of them). I'm adding it to the blogroll.

What can I say. They had me at the name .

There are few finance academics who's work is more well known (and cited) than Eugene Fama and Kenneth French. It turns out that they just started blogging. In their first few posts, they've touched on the bailout, government regulations, whether the recent turmoil is evidence against market efficiency, and more. You can read it here - I'd highly recommend adding it into your feed reader. After all, it's Fama and French (need I say more?) And a thanks to regular reader Jeff V. for the tip.

NYU has one of the largest and best finance faculties around (most surveys place them squarely in the top 5 programs in terms of research output). It turns out that they now have a blog: Stern Finance. It looks pretty promising. Although it's less than 2 months old (the first post was made on September 26), it already has a lot of high-quality content, with participation from a pretty large nuimnber of the faculty. Just this last month, it has posts by Viral Acharya, Marti Subramanyam, Edward Altman, and Joel Hasbrouk among others). It's definitely one to add to your feed reader.

As a new blogger, Financial Rounds benefitted from a number of higher-profile bloggers mentioning it. So, I think it's important to pay the favor forward and highlight new blogs of note. The latest new one is a put out by The Applied Portfolio Management Program at Washburn University . Unlike other academic blogs, this one is unique in that material is contributed both by faculty and by students in the program. Go check it out, and add them to your feed reader - it's been added to the blogroll. And if you come across any other ones, drop me a line.