title: Alan Marcus
text: # Alan Marcus
  
  Alan J. Marcus is an American economist, and the first recipient of the Mario J. Gabelli Endowed Professorship at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where he currently teaches. He is an author of several textbooks widely used in finance and MBA programs internationally, including Fundamentals of Corporate Finance with Stewart Myers and Richard A. Brealey. Marcus serves on the advisory board of the CFA Institute.
  
  ## Education and background
  
  Marcus graduated with high honors, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa, from Wesleyan University, in 1976. He received his PhD in economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. He also served as a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, working with Pension, Monetary Economics, and Financial Markets groups.
  
  ### Academic appointments
  
  * 1981-1990, Boston University
  * 1994 (summer), Visiting Professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA)
  * 1996 and 1997, Visiting Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management
  * 1991–present, Professor at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College
  