Dylan Minor

Focus Areas: Strategy, ESG, Corporate Political Strategy, Non-profit Strategy, Sustainability, Climate, Energy, Executive Compensation, Strategic Human Resources, and Sustainable Finance

Professor Dylan Minor has researched, taught, and practiced finance for over twenty years. He started in private wealth at Morgan Stanley where he began integrating strategic wealth plans with sustainability goals. He later founded his own private firm, Omega Financial Group, to pursue integrating private wealth with non-financial considerations. To further help in this pursuit, he obtained his PhD and Master of Science in Business Administration from UC Berkeley (Haas School of Business). After this, he also created a financial laboratory and hedge fund, Argos Global Advisors, to pursue the application of frontier research that integrates financial, political, and sustainability factors.

In addition to practice, Dr. Minor has held professorships at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, Harvard Business School in Boston, and the Anderson School of Management at UCLA in Los Angeles. He has extensively researched and taught how to integrate social and philanthropic considerations into investing and overall financial management. One manifestation of this work is his creation of the Argos AlphaESG IndexTM that pursues alpha through integrating financial and sustainability factors.

His research has been featured in a variety of media, including ABC, The Academic Minute, Barron's, CBS, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, Harvard Gazette, INC.com, NPR (All Things Considered), Quartz, USA Today, Wired, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) ranks his research’s impact in the top 1% of scholars.

A first-generation college graduate, who is especially fond of dogs, tennis, and travel, Dr. Minor pronounces his first name “Dye-lyn”.

Education

• Ph.D. Business Administration, 2011, University of California, Berkeley
• M.S. Business Administration, 2008, University of California, Berkeley
• B.A. Mathematics/ Economics, 2006, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summa Cum Laude