Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, Smeal College of Business

Greg Pierce is an Associate Teaching Professor of Finance in the Smeal College of Business Administration, where he has taught part-time from 1986 to 1999 while working full-time at HRB Systems/Raytheon and Licom Technologies, Inc., and full-time from 1999 to the present.  He currently teaches the Fundamentals of Corporate Finance to approximately 1,700+ students per academic year in the following Finance courses at Penn State on an ongoing basis: Finance 301 (Corporation Finance), and Finance 301H (Honors Corporation Finance). He previously worked for over 20 years in industry in financial and strategic planning leadership roles at Bechtel Corporation, Inc., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., HRB-Systems/Raytheon, Inc., and as CFO at startup Licom Technologies/Optellios, Inc..

 Greg was named Faculty Fellow of the Penn State Student Engagement Network (SEN) Faculty Academy for the 2020-2021 academic year. Our student engagement project was entitled “The Strategic Business Plan: A Tool for Student Engagement and Entrepreneurial Success in the Community.” Along with four outstanding Smeal/Schreyer Scholars, we explored and presented the economic development impact of the 100+ business plans that have been completed for local, state, national, and international clients over the past 25 years by our Finance 301H class consulting engagements.

Greg was also recently named a Faculty Fellow of the Penn State Teaching and Learning With Technology Network for the 2022-2024 academic year. Our Teaching and Learning with Technology project was entitled “Using the Microsoft Hub 2S Smart Board Collaboration Tool to Revolutionize Learning in the Large-Format Classroom”. https://www.psu.edu/news/information-technology/story/tlt-introduces-faculty-fellows-2022-24/ . Along with colleagues from Penn State’s Teaching and Learning with Technolgy Group, our project completed the installation of two prototype Samsung Flip “magic boards/smart boards” in both 100 Thomas Building and 100 Huck Life Sciences Building in the Spring of 2023.  This “magic board” technology has already greatly improved student engagement all the way back to the “99^th row” and has significantly improved the student learning environment in these very large format classrooms.

Greg received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Penn State’s College of Engineering, and his Master of Business Administration from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business Administration.