https://www.alexanderkzentefis.com/advice daily 0.75 2018-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5adc9e5325bf0289a67f02b4/1524425705340-8211CQSXTF8YQ6EXB31C/lessons_cover.jpg PhD Advice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5adc9e5325bf0289a67f02b4/1524424436641-XXL6V03PKUUXNCFLG8WU/book_list.jpg PhD Advice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5adc9e5325bf0289a67f02b4/1524427119032-LAU7FQL80RBOWGE3UO2B/MY1_wide.jpg PhD Advice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5adc9e5325bf0289a67f02b4/1524427181464-G0R7YA8D1AZ7B86EEDKD/my2_wide.jpg PhD Advice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5adc9e5325bf0289a67f02b4/1524423535121-F0XTOHI0LCZNQHIE1U61/my3_widescreen.jpg PhD Advice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5adc9e5325bf0289a67f02b4/1524423563696-QTA1R98WNZCC6F6A3WOW/MY4_widescreen.jpg PhD Advice https://www.alexanderkzentefis.com/about daily 1.0 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5adc9e5325bf0289a67f02b4/1524408784351-TO5K6JKLRVC29DPM3PDC/winter_shot.png About Alexander Zentefis is an Assistant Professor at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He was previously the John Stauffer National Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. Zentefis studies the structures of institutions, from organizations to markets. His research on organizations includes articles on corporate culture, gerrymandering, media narratives, the theory of the firm, and human-AI collaboration in healthcare. His research on markets includes articles on bank competition, inequality in bank access, regulation of oligopolies, linguistic patterns in bargaining, and capital market liquidity. Zentefis’s research has been featured in national news outlets, including MarketWatch and Forbes. Zentefis earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago. 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