Stanley Block

Stanley Block, Ph.D., CFA, C.C.M., is a Professor of Finance and holds the Stan Block Endowed Chair in Finance at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas. He is coauthor with Geoffrey Hirt of numerous books in finance, including Foundations of Financial Management and [http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/viewProductDetails.do?isbn=0073134937 Fundamentals of Investment Management] . The first-mentioned text has sold over a million copies. He has published approximately fifty articles in such journals as Financial Management, the Journal of Financial Services Research, the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Accountancy, the Financial Analysts Journal, and the Journal of Finance. He is past president of the Southwestern Finance Association and a former director of the Financial Management Association. He serves as a consultant to a number of companies throughout the world and has held board of director positions with three publicly traded companies. At TCU he has twice won the award as the outstanding instructor in the MBA Program; the Dean’s Teaching Award; and the Distinguished Teacher Award for the M.J. Neeley School of Business in the year 2002. In 2006, he was selected for the Chancellor’s Award as the University’s Outstanding Professor.