He was a recognised authority on financial economics, corporate performance measurement, corporate valuation and incentive compensation and was a pioneer and leading advocate of the concept of shareholder value.
After graduating from the University of Chicago's graduate program in Finance and Economics (MBA, Chicago-Booth, 1964), he joined the Chase Manhattan Bank where he ultimately ran Chase Financial Policy, their global consulting operation.
[7] He is also part of the Executive Advisory Committee of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester and was a member of the University of Chicago's Council on the Graduate School of Business.
He has also written for the Wall Street Journal editorial page,[11] the New York Times and Fortune amongst others.
He also has appeared on national business news programs, including Bloomberg TV’s Taking Stock with Pimm Fox,[12] CNBC Asia’s Squawk Box[13][14], CNN’s Moneyline and Wall Street Week, where he was a rotating panelist for 17 years.