Faculty of Social Sciences

Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management

Dr. Terry Harris

Lecturer in Business Analytics (Adjunct)

Dr. Terry Harris is an Assistant Professor at the Durham Business School, Durham University in the United Kingdom and the Managing Director of Thinking Analytics, a business analytics consultancy in the United Kingdom.  An expert in financial engineering and data analytics, he returns to his alma mater, the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill to teach several courses in the MSc. Business Analytics programme on an annual basis. Though very appreciative of the academic and business opportunities in the United Kingdom, he very much looks forward to interacting with the students at Cave Hill and to spending time with family in the beautiful island he calls home.   

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD Finance – Durham University, UK (2018)
  • MSc. Computer Science (focus on Machine Learning) ,University of the West Indies (2013) 
  • BSc. Computer Science and Accounting (Double Major) (2009) 

Professional Qualifications 

  • Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, University of the West Indies (2015) 
  • ACCA Professional Designation, UK  (2013)

Academic Awards

  • Durham University Scholarship (2015)
  • UWI Outstanding Postgraduate Research Award  (2012)
  • UWI Graduate Scholarship (2010)
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Student – Faculty of Science and Technology, UIW (2008)

 

Graduate Courses

  • BUSA 6007- Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
  • FINA 6110 – Advanced Financial Engineering

Programming Skills 

  • C/C++; Python; Java; JavaScript; MATLAB/OCTAVE; R; STATA; SAS; HTML/CSS; SQL; editing in LATEX

  

Research Interests

  • Corporate Finance
  • Credit Risk Assessment and Retail Credit Scoring
  • Earnings Management
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Financial Services and Insurance
  • Institutional Ownership Structure
  • Machine Learning.
  • Crash Risk

Selected Publications

  • Andreou, P, Fiordelisi, F Harris, T., and Philip, D (2021). Institutional Ownership and Firms’ Thrust to Compete. British Journal of Management
  • Andreou, P.C., Harris, T., and Philip, D. (2020). Market Orientation and Firm Performance: A Measure of Market Orientation based on a Textual Analysis of Firms’ 10-K Filings. British Journal of Management.
  • Harris, T. (2017). Earnings Announcements and Quoted bid-ask Spreads of US Bank Holding Companies. Finance Research Letters.
  • Harris, T. (2015). Credit Scoring using the Clustered Support Vector Machine. Expert Systems with Applications.
  • Ventose, E and Harris, T. (2014). Managing the “risky” Business of Patenting in the United States.European Intellectual Property Review.
  • Harris, T. (2013). Quantitative Credit Risk Assessment using Support Vector Machines: Broad versus Narrow Default Definitions. Expert Systems with Applications.

Conference Presentations

  • Financial Management & Accounting Research Conference (FMARC), Limassol, Cyprus (2019)
  • Financial Management Association (FMA) Conference, San Diego, CA, USA (2018)
  • Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS), University of Rome III (2018)
  • British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Conference, Herriot Watt
  • University, Edinburgh (2017)
  • XXV International Rome Conference on Money, Banking and Finance (MBF),
  • University of Rome III (2016)
  • Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) Workshop,
  • Durham University, DUBS, Durham, UK (2016)
  • Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) Workshop,
  • Middlesex University, London, UK (2016)
  • Multinational Finance Society Conference, 22nd Annual Conference in Halkidiki, Greece (2015)
  • Credit Research Centre, Credit Scoring and Credit Control XIII Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (2013)

Reviewer (Adhoc) Responsibilities

  • Expert Systems with Applications
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Finance Review Letters