Harry M. Markowitz

摘要

Harry M. Markowitz (born August 24, 1927) received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago in 1947 and 1950, respectively. Also there in 1954, he received his PhD in economic with a thesis on the portfolio theory. The topic was so novel that, while Markowitz was defending his dissertation, Milton Friedman jokingly argued that portfolio theory was not economics. While still a student at the University of Chicago, he was selected to join the elite Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. He has held academic and research positions at RAND Corporation (1952-63), University of California at Los Angeles (1968-69), IBM (1974-83), and Baruch College of the City University of New York (1983-94). Since 1994, he has been the president of Harry Markowitz Company and an adjunct professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego.