Santa Clara University

Hoje Jo

Associate Professor of Finance

Associate Professor Hoje Jo started his professional career in 1977, specializing in Korean plant and steel exports. After several years in the industry, he decided to pursue a career in academia.

Holding a BA in Chinese Literature from Seoul National University, he went on to receive his MBA in Finance from State University of New York at Buffalo and his PhD in Finance from the University of Florida.

Dr. Jo’s main research interests lie in the areas of corporate, international, venture capital and entrepreneurial finance. His work titled, "The Impact of Security Analysts' Monitoring and Marketing Roles on the Market Value of Firm” was published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and earned him the Best Paper Award at the 1996 Global Finance Conference. Some of Jo’s other works have won him awards from the European Finance Association and the PACAP Finance Conference. In 1992, the Korean Chamber of Commerce in Silicon Valley voted him “Professional Man of the Year.”

Recently Dr. Jo received the Moskowitz Prize (2009), the only global award recognizing outstanding quantitative research in the field of socially responsible investing.

Professor Jo has been teaching at Santa Clara since 1990 and is heavily involved with the Santa Clara community, having worked with the Center of Applied Ethics, the Faculty Senate, the University Governance Committee and the Korean Student Association, among other groups.