Mohan Rao
Mohan Rao
Master of Engineering Management
Course: IEMS 404 - Financial Issues for Engineers
Course and Teacher Evaluation Link:
Financial Issues for Engineers (Spring 2008)
E-mail: mrao@northwestern.edu
Mohan Rao is a Managing Director at LECG, a global economics consulting firm. Dr. Rao specializes in intellectual property and antitrust economics. He frequently serves as an economics expert in high stakes litigation where he helps judges and juries understand complex causation and damages issues. Dr. Rao also advises companies on strategy and valuation issues. He particularly specializes in early stage valuation of pharmaceutical and biotechnology projects. He has worked with pharmaceutical companies such as Abbott Labs, Baxter Healthcare, and Schering-Plough as well as engineering companies such as 3M, Boeing, and LG.
Financial Issues for Engineers gives students an introduction to modern finance theory and its practical application to real world business decisions. In the course, students learn to evaluate the financial health of companies and learn how to value various kinds of financial and real assets, with a particular emphasis on the valuation of new technologies. Students also learn how to incorporate risk into their financial decision making; how to use simulation in valuation; and how to think of projects as real options.
Dr. Rao has previously taught econometrics and game theory as a faculty at UCLA. He describes the MEM students as “the smartest, most experienced and sophisticated group that I have ever had in a classroom.”
Education:
Ph.D. University of Colorado 1994
Pre-Doctoral Fellow Harvard University 1993-1994
B.S. (Engineering) University of Michigan 1989
Professional Experience:
2005 –Present LECG global consulting firm
Managing Director
Dr Rao has provided expert testimony in cases involving patent infringement, anti trust, false advertising, breach of contract, trademark infringement, reasonable royalty, and employment litigation.
2000-2005 Charles River Associates / InteCap, Inc.
Vice President, CRA 2004 -2005
Managing Director, InteCap 2004-2005
Director, InteCap 2000-2003
1994-2001 University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor
1993-1994 Harvard University
Fellow, Government Data Center
Boards and Memberships:
Dr. Rao is a member of the American Economic Association, the Licensing Executives Society (LES), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the Chair of the Valuation Committee of LES.
Publications:
1. “Valuing Intellectual Property in Licensing Transactions," The Licensing Journal, June/July 2008.
2. “Economic Analysis in Securities Class Certifications," Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert, 2008 Supplement, Roman L. Weil, Michael J. Wagner, and Peter B. Frank, Editors, New York: John Wiley, 2008 (with Cathy M. Niden).
3. “Econometric Analysis," Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert, Fourth Edition, Roman L. Weil, Michael J. Wagner, and Peter B. Frank, Editors, New York: John Wiley, 2007 (with Christian Tregillis).
