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Professor Myron S. Scholes |
Professor Myron S. Scholes is Chairman of Oak Hill Platinum Partners, an alternative investment fund, and the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business since 1996. He is also a Director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Dimensional Fund Investors mutual funds, and American Century (Mountain View) mutual funds.
Professor Scholes is widely known for his seminal work in options pricing, capital markets, tax policies and the financial services industry. He has widely published in academic journals. He is co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model, which is the basis of the pricing and risk-management technology that is used to value and to manage the risk of financial instruments around the world. For this work, he was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997.