Bruce Greenwald

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Bruce Greenwald
Born (1946-08-15) August 15, 1946 (age 75)
Nationality American
Institutions Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, USA; First Eagle Investment Management
Field Economics, investing
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University

Bruce Corman Norbert Greenwald (born August 15, 1946), [1] is a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and an advisor at First Eagle Investment Management. He is, among others, the author of the books Value Investing: from Graham to Buffett and Beyond and Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy. He has been referred to by The New York Times as "a guru to Wall Street's gurus" [2] and is a recognized authority on value investing, along with additional expertise in productivity and the economics of information.

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Greenwald received a B.S. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1967, a M.S. in electrical engineering and M.P.A. from Princeton University in 1969, and a Ph.D. from MIT in economics in 1978. Before arriving at Columbia in 1991, Greenwald was a research economist at Bell Laboratories and later Bell Communications Research, and an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. [3]

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References

  1. "Greenwald, Bruce C. N., 1946-". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 26, 2014. pub. info. (b. 8/15/46)
  2. Fabrikant, Geraldine (January 24, 1999). "Private Sector: A Guru to Wall Street's Gurus". The New York Times .
  3. "Bruce Greenwald - CV". Columbia Business School. Retrieved June 17, 2019.