William F. Sharpe
William Forsyth Sharpe is an American economist. He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Background
- Born in
- Boston
- Educated at
- University of California, Los AngelesRiverside Polytechnic High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Alicante🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Vienna
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Armen Alchian🎓 J. Fred Weston
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Aparna Gupta
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1934
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