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Education
Ph.D. Business and Applied Economics, The University of Pennsylvania
M.B.A. Finance, The Wharton School of Business and Finance, University of Pennsylvania
B.A. Economics, The Johns Hopkins University
Additional Information
Dr. Copeland was formerly the managing director of corporate finance at Monitor Company. During the course of his career, he has been recognized as a leading authority on valuation, and he has consulted to more than 200 companies in 35 countries around the world involving cases ranging from mergers and acquisitions, company restructurings, performance measurement and value-based management, stock exchange trading rules, valuing financial institutions, developing risk management systems, and determining capital structure for major corporations. Prior to joining Monitor, Dr. Copeland spent 11 years as the director of corporate financial services at McKinsey & Company. He was a tenured full professor of finance at UCLA from 1973 to 1987 and served as the chairman of the Finance Department and vice chairman of the Graduate School of Management. Dr. Copeland also holds an appointment as a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Business. He had also served as a visiting professor of finance at Harvard University and at NYU’s Stern School of Management. In 1979, he co-authored the book Financial Theory and Corporate Policy, a popular advanced-level finance text that has continuously been in print and is now in its fourth edition (2005). He is also co-author of a forthcoming book entitled Outperform with Expectations-Based-Management (Wiley 2005), as well as Real Options: A Practitioners’ Guide (Tompson 2003), and Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (Wiley, 3rd edition). | 