Principles of Finance

Authors

• Zvi Bodie, Boston University

  Zvi Bodie is Professor Emeritus at Boston University where he was the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management. He has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School (1992–94) and MIT Sloan School of Management (2008-9). Among his many published books and textbooks is the best-selling Investments textbook with Alex Kane and Alan Marcus.

• Robert C. Merton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and John and Natty McArthur University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Merton received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997 for a new method to determine the value of derivatives.

• Richard T. Thakor, University of Minnesota

  Richard T. Thakor is an Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. He is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE), and is a Research Affiliate at the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research (WFA-CFAR) at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published numerous academic articles in top economics, management, and finance journals, and has won multiple teaching awards.