Author Profile Alfred Rappaportis the Leonard Spacek Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he was a member of the faculty for twenty-eight years.His widely acclaimed, pioneering book,Creating Shareholder Value: The New Standard for Business Performance, was published in 1986 and revised in 1998.Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns, co-authored with Michael Mauboussin, was published in 2001.Dr. Rappaport is the author of over seventy articles focusing on applying shareholder value methodology to equity investing, corporate planning and performance evaluation, executive compensation, mergers and… acquisitions, and corporate governance issues. He has been a guest columnist forThe Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, andBusiness Week.Rappaport's teaching, research and consulting activities focus on applying shareholder value methodology to equity investing, corporate planning and performance evaluation, executive compensation, M&A and corporate governance issues. He has consulted for a wide range of major corporations, financial advisors, and government agencies and has served as an expert witness on valuation issues. His shareholder value framework serves as the foundation for LEK Consulting's worldwide financial consulting practice. He created and designed The Wall Street Journal Shareholder Scoreboard, an annual ranking by total shareholder returns of the 1,000 most valuable U.S. corporations, published annually from 1995 to 2008.
Michael J. Mauboussin is chief investment strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. He is the author (with Alfred Rappaport) of Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns.
Peter L. Bernstein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in economics. After serving as a member of the research staff at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, Bernstein joined the the Air Force, attaining the rank of captain serving in World War II, and assigned to the Office of Strategic Services. After the war, Bernstein taught economics for many years as an adjunct professor on the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1951, after teaching economics at Williams College and spending five years in commercial banking, Bernstein became Chief Executive of a nationally known… investment counsel firm He retired in 1973 to launch Peter L. Bernstein, Inc. Bernstein was the first Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974,and is now Consulting Editor of the Journal. He served on the Visiting Committee to the Economics Department at Harvard University, as a Trustee and member of the Finance Committee of the College Retirement Equities Fund, and as a Trustee of the Investment Management Workshop sponsored by the Association for Investment Management & Research. Bernstein is the author of nine books in economics and finance and he has also written articles in professional journals such as The Harvard Business Review and the Financial Analysts Journal, and in the press, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Worth Magazine, and Bloomberg publications. He has contributed to collections of articles published by Perseus and FT Mastering. He is also a lecturer on risk management, asset allocation, portfolio strategy, and market history. Bernstein has received three major awards from the Association for Investment Management & Research, which include; The Award for Professional Excellence, The Graham & Dodd Award, given annually for the outstanding article in the Financial Analysts Journal for the previous year, and The James R. Vertin Award, recognizing individuals who have produced a body of research notable for its relevance and enduring value to investment professionals.