[1] Professor Elton has served as a portfolio theory and investment management consultant for major financial institutions in Asia, Europe, and the United States.
He has been a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Management in Berlin and a visiting scholar at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in Brussels and at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Professor Elton received the Graham Dodd Award for research in investments and was named Distinguished Scholar by the Eastern Finance Association.
[1] He received his BS in Math from Ohio Wesleyan, and his MS and PhD in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon.
His book, Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis,[2] is the standard textbook used in most leading graduate schools of business.