1981 - 1984 Founding Principal and Executive Vice-President, Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates
1976 - 1980 Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC, Berkeley
1975 - 1976 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC, Berkeley
1975 - 1975 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Washington
1972 - 1975 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC, Berkeley
1970 - 1972 Teaching Associate, University of California, Los Angeles
External Service and Assignments
Associate Editor: Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Derivatives, Journal of RISK.
Advisory Board, Journal of Investment Management.
Current Research and Interests
The history of the theory of investments
Christianity
Selected Papers and Publications
A History of the Theory of Investments: My Annotated Bibliography, published by Wiley, March 2006.
Great Moments in Financial Economics: IV. The Fundamental Theory, Part II, first quarter 2006.
Great Moments in Financial Economics: IV The Fundamental Theory, Part I, fourth quarter 2005.
"Recovering Probabilities and Risk Aversion from Options Prices and Realized Returns" (with Jens Jackwerth) in The Legacy of Fischer Black, edited by Bruce Lehman, Oxford University Press, April 2004.
Great Moments in Financial Economics: III. Short-Sales and Stock Prices, Journal of Investment Management, first quarter 2004.
All in All, It's Been a Good Life, in The Growth of Modern Risk Management: A History, Risk Books, July 2003.
Great Moments in Financial Economics: I. Present Value, Journal of Investment Management, first quarter 2003; II. Modigliani-Miller Theorem, Journal of Investment Management, second quarter 2003.
Teaching
MFE230A: Fundamentals of Financial Economics
MFE230C: Derivatives: Economic Concepts
UGBA103: Introduction to Finance
UGBA39D: How Christianity became the World's Dominant Religion
Honors and Awards
Financial Analysts Foundation Graham and Dodd Plaque Award for the best paper to appear in the Financial Analysts Journal during 2001
Earl F. Cheit Teaching Award (MFE, 2003)
CBOE Pomerance Prize for Excellence in Options Research for "Option Pricing: A Simplified Approach" (awarded jointly with John Cox and Stephen Ross), 1978
Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (third prize) for "Tests of Alternative Option Pricing Formulas", 1982
Biennial Leo Melamed Prize for Options Markets (co-authored with John Cox) awarded by the editors of the Journal of Business for the most significant published work by a faculty member of a school of business, 1984-85
Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (first prize) for "Alternative Paths to Portfolio Insurance", 1985
Financial Analysts Foundation Graham and Dodd Plaque Award for excellence in financial writing awarded by the Financial Analysts Journal, 1985
Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (third prize) for "Derivative Assets Analysis", 1987
Named "Businessman of the Year" (one of 12) by Fortune magazine (December), 1987
Financial Analysts Foundation Graham and Dodd Scroll Award for excellence in financial writing awarded by the Financial Analysts Journal, 1988
Financial Analysts Foundation Graham and Dodd Scroll Award for excellence in financial writing awarded by the Financial Analysts Journal, 1989
Financial Engineer of the Year Award awarded by the International Association of Financial Engineers, 1995
Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (first prize) for "Recovering Probability Distributions from Option Prices", 1996