Stanford Report, October 3, 2001
William F. Sharpe
William F. Sharpe, the STANCO 25 Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Emeritus; at Stanford 1970-present. Awarded the 1990 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Harry M. Markowitz and Merton H. Miller "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics."
Since receiving
the prize, Sharpe has focused on research, teaching and helping found
a company designed to bring knowledge from the field of financial economics
to bear on the problems individual investors have saving and investing
for retirement. Since 1996, the company, Financial Engines, has employed
computer and communications technology to make high-quality advice available
to individuals at low cost.
Anne Knudsen
