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Scholes</b></font><p><b>AKA</b> Myron Samuel Scholes<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/700/000106382/" class=proflink>1-Jul</a>-<a href="/lists/940/000105625/" class=proflink>1941</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/266/000166765/" class=proflink>Timmins, Ontario, Canada</a><br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Religion:</b> <a href="/lists/875/000071662/" class=proflink>Jewish</a><br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/181/000068974/" class=proflink>Economist</a>, Business<p><b>Nationality:</b> Canada<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Black-Scholes options pricing model<p>As a boy, Myron S. Scholes was the treasurer of his youth clubs. In high school he began investing in the stock market, and when computers came into widespread use he was considered a programming whiz. Working in collaboration with <a href="/people/353/000117002/">Robert C. Merton</a> and Fischer Black, Scholes developed an improved formula, called the Black-Scholes options pricing model, for determining the value of stock options. For their work, Scholes and Merton shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. Black, however, died in 1995, and Nobel honors are not awarded posthumously.<p> In 1994, Merton, Scholes, and <a href="/people/338/000163846/">John W. Meriwether</a>, a bond trader from <a href="/company/643/000052487/">Salomon Brothers</a>, founded <a href="/company/336/000163844/">Long-Term Capital Management</a>, a hedge fund which used new mathematical models to plan and execute convergence trades involving government bonds issued by the U.S., Japan, and various European nations. Despite its name, Long-Term was successful only in the short-term, recording profits for several years but then collapsing with about $4.6B in losses triggered by the late-1990s Russian economic collapse, which their theory had not seen coming. In the aftermath of the Long-Term's collapse, the fund was found to have claimed numerous inappropriate tax deductions, and Scholes and his partners were fined $40M.<p> <p><b>Father:</b> (dentist)<br><b>Mother:</b> (owned a department store, d. 1957)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Anne Scholes<br><b>Daughter:</b> Sara Scholes<br><b>Wife:</b> Jan (m. 1998)<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/585/000079348/">BS Economics, McMaster University (1961)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">MBA, University of Chicago (1964)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">PhD Financial Economics, University of Chicago (1968)</a><br> Teacher: <a href="/edu/487/000068283/">Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968-73)</a><br> Teacher: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">Economics, University of Chicago (1973-74)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">Economics, University of Chicago (1974-81)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/468/000068264/">Law and Finance, Stanford University (1983-96)</a><br><p> <a href="/honors/183/000067979/">Nobel Prize for Economics</a> 1997 (with <a href="/people/353/000117002/">Robert C. Merton</a>)<br> <a href="/company/336/000163844/">Long-Term Capital Management</a> (1994-2000)<br> <a href="/company/643/000052487/">Salomon Brothers</a> (1990-94)<br> Member of the Board of <a href="/company/853/000125478/">Oak Hill Capital Partners</a> (as Chairman)<br> Member of the Board of <a href="/company/675/000119318/">Chicago Mercantile Exchange</a> <br> <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> 2010<br> <a href="/org/059/000103747/">American Economic Association</a> <br> <a href="/org/351/000117000/">American Finance Association</a> <br> <a href="/org/493/000049346/">Hoover Institution</a> Senior Fellow<br> <a href="/org/446/000094164/">National Bureau of Economic Research</a> <br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Taxes and Business Strategy: A Planning Approach</i> (<tt>1991</tt>, with Mark A. 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