Dr. Bliss has been involved in corporate finance since 1987. He teaches at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive levels, specializing in the areas of Corporate Financial Strategy and Entrepreneurial Finance. Prior to coming to Babson, Dr. Bliss was on the faculty at Indiana University and also taught extensively in Central and Eastern Europe, including at the Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw University, and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He has developed and delivered customized corporate training programs for Lucent Technologies, the Slovak American Enterprise Fund in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Foundation for the Establishment of the Futures Exchange in Warsaw and Bright China Management Institute in Beijing.

With publications in the areas of corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and banking, Dr. Bliss has an active research agenda. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Derivatives Quarterly, and the Journal of Small Business Management, among others. He has also written numerous case studies in the areas of corporate financial strategy and risk management.

Dr. Bliss is currently the holder of the Barefoot Family Endowed Chair for Finance and the Division Chair.