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Bill B. Francis

finance academic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ131911052 ↗
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Bill B. Francis is an academic.

Francis earned a PhD in financial economics at the University of Toronto. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of South Florida, where he held the Bank of America Professorship. In 2005, Francis joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lally School of Management as Warren H. and Pauline U. Bruggeman Distinguished Professor of Finance.

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“Bill B. Francis” enters the record as finance academic. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bill, Francis and finance can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bill, Francis and finance.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bill B. Francis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.