David S. Scharfstein (born 1960) is the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School.
He received an AB in 1982 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University, and, in 1986, a PhD in economics from MIT.
[3] According to his faculty page at Harvard, he is interested in "Banking, financial distress, risk management, corporate investment, private equity.
He has published 37 peer-reviewed articles on various aspects of capital management, and written 10 working papers and 11 Harvard Business School cases.
He criticized the 2008 United States Bank Bailout in two New York Times articles[5][6] He has been a Member of the Board of Editors of Journal of Economic Literature from January 2013 on, and Editor of RAND Journal of Economics from 1995 to 1998.