His research's primary mission is to provide novel methods for a more accurate valuation to enhance decision-making in corporate acquisitions. Applications of these valuation techniques vary from valuation mergers and acquisitions (M&A), design of serial and buy-and-build acquisition strategies, mitigating behavioral pitfalls and biases, valuing high-tech ventures and R&D strategies, the value of toeholds for bidding strategies, and other auction strategies. Applications of research on public investment with a positive societal impact include the valuation of infrastructure investment, the value of institutional quality in a country on a firm’s growth options, and the social value of investments that mitigate CO2 emissions. Han Smit is Professor of Corporate Finance at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and co-founder of the Financial Economics master program at Erasmus School of Economics. He has been a visiting scholar at NIAS (Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences), Harvard University, Boston University, Columbia Business School and UC at Berkeley. Han specializes in private equity, company valuation, acquisition strategy and aims to link theory and practice in these areas. Han has been winner of the education prize 2019 at Erasmus University, founder and academic director of the Financial Economics master specialization at Erasmus School of Economics, co-chairman of the Finance section, consultant and advisor in major acquisitions, and expert advisor in round table on private equity of the Dutch government. He has published widely, with articles in Games and Economic Behavior, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Quantitative and Financial Analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Financial Management, California Management Review, Long Range Planning, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Wall Street Journal.