643About the Authors
Charles A. Anderson’s career includes academic and business experience. He
has been a faculty member of both the Harvard Business School and the Stan-
ford Business School. He was the president, chief executive officer, and a
director of Walker Manufacturing Co., J.I. Case, and the Stanford Research
Institute. He has served on a number of corporate boards of directors, includ-
ing NCR Corp., Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Boise-Cascade Corp., and
the Eaton Company.
Robert N. Anthonyis Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Con-
trol, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He has been a director and chair-
man of the audit committee of Carborundum Company and Warnaco, Inc. He
has been a director of several smaller organizations and a trustee (including
chairman of the board) of Colby College, and of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med-
ical Center. He is the author or coauthor of some 20 books and 100 articles on
management subjects, especially management control; his books and articles
have been translated into 12 languages. He is a past president of the American
Accounting Association.
Richard T. Blisshas been involved in corporate financial analysis since 1987
and is currently on the finance faculty at Babson College. He teaches at the un-
dergraduate, MBA, and executive levels, specializing in the areas of Corporate
Financial Strategy and Entrepreneurial Finance. Prior to coming to Babson,
Dr. Bliss was on the faculty at Indiana University and he has also taught exten-
sively in Central and Eastern Europe, including at the Warsaw School of Eco-
nomics, Warsaw University, and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
With publications in the areas of corporate finance, entrepreneurship,
and banking, Dr. Bliss has an active research agenda. His recent work on the
impact of bank mergers on CEO compensation has been cited in For t unemag-
azine and numerous other business publications and will be published in the
Journal of Financial Economics.