Education
Harvard Business School. Harvard University; Amherst College.
Harvard Business School. Harvard University; Amherst College.
He is best known for his work on valuation and real options. Specifically, he conceived the idea of treating business strategy as a series of options, and his papers here are widely quoted. His research focuses on international corporate finance, advanced valuation techniques, and long-horizon financial management.
He has published numerous books, research articles and case studies for both scholars and practitioners.
He has held appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Institute for Management Development and the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He was also a Managing Director at Standard & Poor’s Corporate Value Consulting division and a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Amherst College (1979), Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School (1983), and Doctor of Philosophy in Business economics from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1986).
During 2003-2004 he was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Option Valuation Group.