Thomas J. Salerno is co-chair of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey's  (http://www.ssd.com/) reorganization and restructuring practice and chair of the firm’s international insolvency practice. He has been involved in restructurings in the UK, Germany, France, Switzerland and the Czech and Slovak Republics. In addition, he has lectured and assisted in revamping the insolvency laws of the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, and he teaches comparative international insolvency at the University of Salzburg. Mr. Salerno was named as one of twelve Outstanding Bankruptcy Attorneys in 1998 and 2000 by Turnarounds & Workouts. He is a director of both the American Bankruptcy Institute, where he also serves on the executive committee, and the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification, Inc. He is a past chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the State Bar of Arizona and a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.  (read the full bio)

Stephen Salsbury was an Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware when he co-authored this book.  He is also the author of The State, the Investor and the Railroad: The Boston and Albany 1825-1867.  He later became Chairman of the History Department at the University of Sidney, Australia.  He is now deceased.

Alberto B. Santos, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He is co-editor of Innovative Approaches for Difficult to Treat Populations . Dr. Santos has directed the psychiatry residency training program of MUSC since 1982. His educational background includes an undergraduate major in psychology and a master's degree in experimental psychology. He completed medical school and psychiatry residency training at MUSC. He finished his fellowship at the NIMH Psychiatry Education Branch. He is a fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and the American Psychiatric Association. He has published over one hundred journal articles and three books. 

The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution

Rockwell Schulz is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, where he founded and directed the programs in Health Services Administration. He received a Masters in Hospital Administration from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Before his academic career, he served as a hospital administrator and as Assistant and Associate Dean at Tulane University Medical School and the University of Texas Medical School.

Robert A. Schwartz is Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance and University Distinguished Professor at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Among his numerous publications are The Microstructure of Security Markets: Theory and Implications and Impending Changes for Securities Markets: What Role for Exchanges?

Austin Wakeman Scott was Story Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. 

Theodore Sedgwick, 1811-1859, a legal scholar born in Albany, New York. He practised law from 1934 to 1950, and served as United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1858-1859. He wrote a number of law books as well as writing extensively for the popular press.

Performance Evaluation of Hedge Funds (with Greg N. Gregoriou, and Fabrice Rouah)

Komlan Sedzro is a Professor of the Business Strategy Department at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He holds a Ph.D. in finance-insurance from the Laval University in 1992. He had taught at the University of Laval, the University of Quebec at Hull and the University of Ottawa. He joined the UQAM in 1998 where he currently directs Masters in Science in Applied Finance program and the DESS in Finance. He is also a associate director with FINÉCO and associate researcher and Chair in Bio-Industries Management with the UQAM. His interests  is in to corporate finance, financial decisions, financial markets, estimation and the modeling of the risks, performance evaluation, by-products, and the application of the models of real options to the decisions of investment. He is the author of various books and articles, as well as a frequent presenter at international conferences, including The Australasian Finances and Banking Association, The Institute for Operation Research and Management Science, the International Multi-objective Conference one Programming and Goal Programming, and the Multinational Finances Society.

Joel Edwin Segall, a former president of Baruch College and an economist, also who presided over Baruch from 1977 to 1990, and held positions at the University of Chicago and the federal departments of Labor and the Treasury. Born in Bridgeport, Segall served in the Army Air Force during World War II and earned master's and doctorate degrees at the University of Chicago. For 20 years, he taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School and became director of its doctoral programs. In the early 1970s, Segall served as deputy assistant secretary for tax policy in the Treasury Department and deputy undersecretary for international affairs in the Department of Labor. He was a consultant to the Securities and Exchange Commission when New York's Board of Higher Education picked him to preside over Baruch. He died in October 2003.

L. William Seidman, former head of the FDIC in the Reagan and Bush Administrations, has been a chief commentator on CNBC since November 1991, and is publisher of Bank Director magazine. He is also on the speaking circuit, and is a consultant to the Nippon Credit Bank, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Ernst & Young, and Freddie Mac, among others.

Molly Shapiro has been a nurse since 1984. She holds MBA, MS, and BS degrees from the University of Colorado. She received a Ph.D. in Education from Columbus University in Louisiana. Ms. Shapiro practices ER and ICU nursing at a community hospital and clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She teaches graduate school at Winona State University, and has written a number of professional articles. She also manages a health care consulting business.

Myron R. Sharaf, Ph. D. was Associate Area Director of Boston State Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Mort Sheinman was with Women's Wear Daily for about 40 years, arriving in May 1960 and retiring on January 3, 2000. With the exception of the period from October 1965 to February 1969, when he sold advertising space for the newspaper before recovering his sanity and returning to the newsroom, he was a reporter and editor. His First assignment was to cover the lingerie and store display markets. He later reported on the ready-to-wear and fabric industries. He became Managing Editor of Women's Wear Daily in 1971 and held that post until his retirement. In addition to his editing chores, he wrote numerous profiles for the paper on personalities as diverse as Alistair Cooke and Zero Mostel. He was also one of the original editors of W magazine and was Managing Editor for the first decade of its existence. At W, he contributed profiles and adventure travel articles, often accompanied by his own photographs. He has also taught journalism at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

Dr. Alan Sheldon had been an independent health management consultant. He had consulted, taught and written extensively on many aspects of health management with a specialty in competitive strategy, strategic planning and physician-management relationships. He was trained as a physician and psychiatrist in England and in public health at Harvard University. He taught at Harvard University for over 20 years in the Schools of Medicine, Business and Public Health. He was formerly director of executive programs in health policy and management at Harvard. Dr. Sheldon is now retired and lives in England.

Henry Newton Sheldon was born in Waterville, Maine, on the twenty-eighth of June, 1842. He was educated in the public schools of Bath and Waterville and, eventually, entered Harvard graduated first scholar in the class of 1863. He then entered into private tutoring, military service and established his law practice.  He became a supreme court justice and served in a lot of organizations and government commissions. He died on January 14, 1926.  (read the full bio)

Stanley Siegelman joined Women's Wear Daily in 1950, with a master's degree in 18th century English literature from Columbia University. He served as News Editor in a variety of major markets, rising to the post of Assistant Managing Editor. His tenure included editorial positions on two other Fairchild newspapers: Daily News Record and Drug News Weekly. He left Fairchild in 1968 to become Editor-in-Chief of American Druggist Magazine, a publication of the Hearst Corporation.

Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership

The Titans of Takeover 

Stuart Slatter is founding partner of Stuart Slatter & Company, Chairman of Stuart Slatter Training, and is a Visiting Fellow in Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He has served as Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of Capetown. He has also been a corporate managing director and a senior management consultant. Mr. Slatter holds a law degree from Cambridge University and is a qualified barrister-at-law. He has also earned an MBA from Stanford Business School and a Ph.D. in marketing from London University. He is the author of a number of books and articles, and a founding member of the Society of Turnaround Professionals.

Getting It to the Bottom Line: Management by Incremental Gains
How to Measure Managerial Performance
No-Nonsense Management: A General Manager's Primer
No-Nonsense Planning
The Turnaround Manager's Handbook

Richard S. Sloma  is an attorney and internationally acclaimed lecturer.

Twenty-eight years of hands-on management experience as a Board Member, Chairman, CEO and COO of several companies. Hold a J.D. from DePaul University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is the author of a number of other books on good business practices: No-Nonsense Management, No-Nonsense Planning, How to Measure Managerial Performance and Getting it to the Bottom Line.

Seymour Smidt has been the Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Economics and Finance at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management since 1978. He is also currently the Director of the Leadership Skills Program. He has co-authored a number of books on capital budgeting, corporate finance, and statistical decision theory. He has authored numerous journal articles or articles incorporated into other publications. Among other notable accomplishments, he was the Associate Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Institutional Investor Study, and founding Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Koc University Istanbul, Turkey. He received A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.

Long-Term Care in Transition: The Regulation of Nursing Homes
The White Labyrinth: Guide to the Health Care System

Professor Smith received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Medical Care Organization and has previously held faculty positions at the Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Rochester. He has also served as an IPA Fellow in the Office of Research and Policy of the Health Care Financing Administration. Currently, he is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Health Services Administration in the School of Business and Management at Temple University.  He received a 1995 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Investigator Award for research on the history and legacy of the racial segregation of health care. He is the author or co-author of four books on the organization of health services and numerous articles in peer reviewed journals.

The Global Bankers
The Money Wars: The Rise & Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s

Albert Waldo Snoke was born in Fort Steilacoom, Washington, in 1907. After receiving a B.S. degree from the University of Washington in 1928, he attended Stanford University Medical School and received his M.D. degree in 1933. In 1936, Snoke joined the staff of the Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, and became its assistant director in 1937. Snoke left Rochester in 1946 to assume the directorship of Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. In New Haven he also taught hospital administration at Yale University and oversaw the development of the Yale-New Haven Hospital, serving as its executive director from 1965-1968. From 1969-1973, Snoke worked in Illinois as coordinator of health services and later as acting executive director of the Illinois Comprehensive State Health Planning Agency. In 1987 his book, Hospitals, Health, and People , was published. Snoke died on April 18, 1988.

Robert Sobel was born in 1931 and died in 1999. He was a prolific historian of American business life, writing or editing more than 50 books and hundreds of articles and corporate profiles. He was a professor of business at Hofstra University for 43 years and held a Ph.D. from New York University. Besides producing books, articles, book reviews, scripts for television and audiotapes, he was a weekly columnist for Newsday from 1972 to 1988. At the time of his death he was a contributing editor to Barron's Magazine.

Joan Edelman Spero received the B.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1966), the M.I.A. from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (1968), and the Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate Faculties (1973). Spero was an assistant professor at Columbia from 1973 to 1979. She served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council from 1980 to 1981. From 1981 to 1993, she was an executive at the American Express Company, where her last position was executive vice president for corporate affairs.  In 1993, President Clinton appointed her to the U.S. Department of State as under secretary of economic, business, and agricultural affairs. She played a central role in formulating the administration's foreign economic policy. She also served as a top advisor on the G7 economic summits. (read the full bio)

Irvine H. Sprague is a former Chairman and Board Member of the FDIC.

Norman St. John-Stevas was born in 1929. He was a Member of Parliament for Chelmsford from 1964 to 1987. He was the leader of the House of Commons from 1979 to 1981. Among other involvements, he served as Minister of State for the Arts and as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1995, he became Lord St. John of Fawsley.

Bankruptcy: A Feast for Lawyers

Sol Stein is the author of nine novels, which have made bestseller lists as far away as Moscow. He is also an anthologized poet, the author of nonfiction books, screenplays, and TV dramas, and the creator of the award-winning computer software WritePro, as well as FirstAid for Writers and FictionMaster. Stein has lectured on creative writing at Columbia, Iowa, UCLA, and the University of California at Irvine, which presented him with the Distinguished Instructor Award in 1993. His on-line columns appear on America Online, the Writers Club on the World Wide Web, and elsewhere on the Internet. (read the full bio)

Too Big to Fail: Olympia & York: The Story Behind the Headlines

In his past, Walter Stewart has written about the big goofs and games played by government and corporations in real estate, banking, newspaper publishing, energy, airport construction and more. He has also written two novels. But he has now decided to write about Canada and Canadians

Corporate Responsibility: Law and Ethics

Christopher D. Stone is J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. Professor Stone has written in several areas including the environment, white collar and corporate crime, legal philosophy, U.S. alternate energy policy, climate change, biodiversity, ocean policy, and trade law. He has served on or worked under the auspices of a variety of governmental agencies including the President's Commission on Communications Policy, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the United States Sentencing Commission.

Evelyn M. Stone served as Executive Editor for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.

Joseph Story, 1779-1845, was one of the most famous figures in United States legal history. In 1798 he graduated from Harvard and was admitted to the bar. He began his practice in Salem, Massachusetts in 1801. Elected to the state legislature in 1805, he became a leader in the Republican Party, and entered Congress in 1808. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from 1811 until 1845. He was also a professor of law starting in 1829 and authored numerous law books that were highly influential in the development of the law.

Thomas Atkins Street, A.M., LL.B. was a professor with the School of Law at Vanderbilt University. 

Jacob Streider was a professor of economic history at the University of Munich.

Lloyd Paul Stryker was for many years general counsel for the Medical Society of the State of New York, and during that period had personal charge of the legal policy of the Society and the defense of its members who were sued for malpractice. Before resigning as general counsel of the Society, he was requested by its Executive Committee to put in book form the results of his experiences and his researches in the law of this subject - Courts and Doctors. 

Paul Studenski, 1887-1961, was born and raised in Russia. He studied law in Russia and then medicine at the Sorbonne in Paris. He entered a brief but accomplished career in aviation and his feats in this regard can be found in a collection at the National Air and Space Museum. He then returned to academe, and received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1921. This was followed by a distinguished career in teaching and government service. He was a Professor of Economics at New York University from 1927 to 1955, and followed this for two years as Director of the Albany Graduate Program in Public Administration. He was a highly regarded consultant and adviser, and authored many books.

Teresa A. Sullivan is Vice President and Graduate Dean, The University of Texas at Austin.Professor and Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies Teresa A. Sullivan completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She is a labor force demographer. She is also past Secretary of the American Sociological Association, past Chair of the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Science of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Sociological Research Association. She received the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for her book As We Forgive Our Debtors.

A History of American Currency 
Robert Morris

William Graham Sumner, 1840-1910 was an American sociologist and political economist. He graduated from Yale in 1863, and studied in Germany, in Switzerland, and at Oxford. From 1872 on he was a professor of political and social science at Yale. He was an authors of numerous works in his fields of interest and expertise.

Floating Exchange Rates and the State of World Trade (with David Bigman)

Teizo Taya is currently a member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan.  Born on March 5, 1945, he received his BA in Industrial Relation (1967) and MA in Applied Sociology (1969) from Rikkyo University. He then obtained his MA in Economics in 1973 and Ph.D. in Economics in 1977 from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He then became an economist for the International Monetary Fund, then moved on to become a Senior Economist and International Economic Manager of the Daiwa Securities Research Institute Ltd. Research Department (1983) and was promoted to Managing Director by 1998, rising within the Institute through different ranks.

Arthur Nelson Taylor, 1867-1949, graduated from Milton College in 1886. He received a LL.B. from the University of Wisconsin in 1889, and was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar in that same year. After a number of years in private practice, he became an examiner for the Federal Trade Commission, 1918-1922. From 1992 to his retirement in 1945, he worked on the legal staff of General Motors.

Francis B. Tiffany (St. Paul, Minnesota) wrote the Hand-Book of Criminal Law in 1907 and the Hand-Book of the Law of Sales in 1895 in addition to Death by Wrongful Act.

Harvest Moon: Portrait of a Nursing Home 
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Medical Miracles and Other Disasters

Sallie Tisdale is the author of six books and many essays. She is a contributing editor of Tricycle Magazine. She is a past winner of an NEA Fellowship, the John Phelan Award, and the Pope Foundation Fellowship. She is a registered nurse.

John E. Tracy was a professor of law at the University of Michigan, practiced in the courts of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and New York, and was one of the drafters of the ABA's model corporation code.

Wilfred Trotter, 1872-1939, was a surgeon with a distinguished medical career and a sociologist. He was a surgeon at the University College Hospital in London from 1906, and held the office of honorary surgeon to King George V from 1928 to 1932.

Jerome Tuccille is Vice President of T. Rowe Price Investment Services, and he has worked in the investment area as a broker and supervisory analyst since 1975. He is the author of more than 20 books including a recent biography of Alan Greenspan. His works include four novels and many financial books. From 1971 to 1973, the author taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and in 1974 he was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of New York. Tuccille and his wife Marie have two children and one grandson. They reside in Maryland.