Joel M. Stern is Managing Partner of Stern Stewart & Co., a New York corporate financial advisory firm. He is author of Analytical Methods in Financial Planning and Measuring Corporate Performance, and currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Finance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.


Donald H. Chew was a founding partner of Stern Stewart & Co., and is Editor-in-Chief of the Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. He holds a Ph.D. in English and American Literature, as well as an M.B.A. in Finance, from the University of Rochester.