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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Alfred Rappaport
Alfred Rappaport is the Leonard Spacek Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University’s
J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He
is the author of the business classic Creating Shareholder Value: A Guide for Managers and Investors, and coauthor with Michael
Mauboussin of Expectations Investing. Rappaport
has been a guest columnist for the Wall Street
Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, and
BusinessWeek. He created 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. Rappaport lives in La Jolla, CA.
Michael Mauboussin
Michael J. Mauboussin is Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management. Prior to joining LMCM in 2004, Michael was a Managing Director and Chief U.S. Investment Strategist at Credit Suisse. Michael joined CS in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst. He is a former president of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team and The Wall Street Journal All-Star survey in the food industry group.
Michael is the author of Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition (Harvard Business Press, 2009) and More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places-Updated and Expanded (New York: Columbia Business School Publishing, 2008). More Than You Know was named one of "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time" by 800-CEO-READ, one of the best business books by BusinessWeek (2006) and best economics book by Strategy+Business (2006). He is also co-author, with Alfred Rappaport, of Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns (Harvard Business School Press, 2001).
Michael has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993 and is on the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing. In 2009, Michael received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. BusinessWeek's Guide to the Best Business Schools (2001) highlighted Michael as one of the school's "Outstanding Faculty," a distinction received by only seven professors.
Michael earned an A.B. from Georgetown University. He is also on the board of trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, a leading center for multi-disciplinary research in complex systems theory, and is on the board of directors of Sermo, an online community for physicians.
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