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After graduating from the University of Chicago"s graduate program in Finance and Economics (Master of Business Administration, Chicago-Booth, 1964), he joined the Chase Manhattan Bank where he ultimately ran Chase Financial Policy, their global consulting operation.
He is a recognized authority on financial economics, corporate performance measurement, corporate valuation and incentive compensation and is a pioneer and leading advocate of the concept of shareholder value. He is also active in academia, and in the media. During this time, he developed EVA. In 1982, after 18 years at Chase Manhattan, he started Stern Stewart.
He is the author of two books and the co-author of six others - all in financial economics.
He teaches at or has served on the adjunct faculties of several graduate business schools in America and abroad, including Carnegie Mellon University"s Tepper School of Business, The University of Chicago (Chicago-Booth), the University of Cape Town, Singapore Management University, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Universidad EAFIT, and the Lauder Business School. His media involvements include being the financial policy columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Financial Times.
He has also written for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the New York Times and Fortune amongst others He also has appeared on national business news programs, including Bloomberg television’s Taking Stock with Pimm Fox, Consumer News and Business Channel Asia’s Squawk Box, Cable News Network’s Moneyline and Wall Street Week, where he was a rotating panelist for 17 years.
He is the executive editor of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Financial Management and Analysis. He is also part of the Executive Advisory Committee of the William East. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester and is a member of the University of Chicago"s Council on the Graduate School of Business.
