Office: 413 RBC Phone: 610-758-5282 Fax: 610-758-6429 Email: scw0@lehigh.edu Undergraduate: Finance 335: Advanced Topics of Financial Management and Modeling Graduate: MBA402: Managing Physical and Financial Assets Graduate: GBUS 424: Topics of Financial Management and Modeling vSeries: GBEN409: Financial Forecasting Professional: Finance and Accounting for Non-financial Professionals Professional: Customized Workshops

Perella Department of Finance:  Professor of Practice

Education
- Lehigh University, B.S., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Professor Weaver joined the full-time faculty at Lehigh in January 1998 and held the John C. Swartley '24 Professorhip from 2004-2005. Prior to 1998, Dr. Weaver was the Lauer Adjunct Professor of Finance at Lehigh University (1986 - 1997) and the Director, Financial Planning and Analysis, at Hershey Foods Corporation for almost 20 years.

His personal research revolves around areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and financial performance measurement. Dr. Weaver is the co-author (with J. Fred Weston) of two books, Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers and Mergers and Acquisitions (McGraw Hill - Executive MBA Series - 2001) with a third book under contract through South-Western Publishing, Strategic Financial Management: Applications of Corporate Finance (2007). He has published in numerous leading academic and practitioner journals, provided chapters for four books, appeared in numerous textbooks discussing applications of corporate finance, and co-authored two cases published by the Darden Graduate School of Business. He has served as an associate editor for four journals and is a regular reviewer. His work has been presented at numerous professional conferences.

He currently serves on the FMA's Board of Trustees and Board of Regents - CMA/CFM Exam. Additionally, he is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Certified Financial Manager (CFM). His consulting includes both large (Fortune 200) and small clients from a variety of industries on numerous topics as well as customized professional educational workshops.

In 1999 and again in 2002, he was honored as the outstanding MBA professor of the year. 

Research Interests

• Corporate Financial Management
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Valuation
• Capital Investment
• Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital
• Divisional Investment Hurdle Rates
• Financial Performance Metrics
• Financial Performance Benchmarking
• Strategic Planning
• Planning and Budgeting 
   

Publications and Working Papers

• Samuel C. Weaver and J. Fred Weston, Strategic Financial Management: Applications of Corporate Finance, South-Western Publishing, Publication Date: January 2007.
• "Corporate Governance Scores: Evidence from Canadian Capital Markets" with Parveen P. Gupta, Duane Kennedy, Financial Management Association Annual Conference, 2006.
• "Hershey Foods Corporation: Hot Summer Days in Chocolate Town USA," with Kenneth Eades published by the Darden School Press, 2004. One of the Top Ten Darden cases sold 2004.
• "Economic Value Added® Adjustments: Much to Do About Nothing?" with Anne M. Anderson and Roger P. Bey, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis Round Table, Financial Management Association Annual Conference, 2004.
• "Survey - What's Important in Corporate Finance and the CMA / CFM?," Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis Round Table, Financial Management Association Annual Conference, 2004.
• "Consistency of Economic Value Added," Corporate Finance Review (Warren Gorham & Lamont), Vol. 7, Number 5, March/April 2003.
• "Using Value Line to Estimate the Cost of Capital and Industry Capital Structure," Journal of Financial Education, Summer 2003.
• "Financing Your Business," Chapter for Karen Collins' forthcoming Introduction to Business Interactive Textbook, 2003.
• "Chocolate Confections Corporation: An IT Investment Project Evaluation Case Study," with Kenneth Eades, published by the Darden School Press, 2002.
• "Product Decisions in Practice," with Jack Paul, Advances in Accounting, (an Elsevier Publication), 2002.
• "Measuring Economic Value Added : A Survey of The Practices of EVA Proponents," Journal of Applied Finance, Fall/Winter 2001.
• Mergers and Acquisitions, with J. Fred Weston, McGraw-Hill: Executive MBA Series, 2001.
• Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers, with J. Fred Weston, McGraw-Hill: Executive MBA Series, 2001.

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