Alex Kune holds a PhD from the Stern School of Business of New York University and has been Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo; Graduate School of Business, Harvard; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. An author of many articles in finance and management journals. Professor Kane's research is mainly in corporate finance, portfolio management. and capital markets.

Alan Marcus is the Mario J. Gabelli Professor of Finance in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his PhD in economics from MIT. Professor Marcus has been a visiting professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration and at MIT's Sloan School of Management and has served as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Marcus has published widely in the fields of capital markets and portfolio management. He also spent two years at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he developed models of mortgage pricing and credit risk.
He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute.

Professor Racculia holds a PhD from Princeton University and is a professor of Finance at Saint Vincent College. He teaches a wide range of classes in Corporate Finance, Investments, and Alternative Assets. He has published in the field of private equity and will focus on the development of online content for the text. Prior to academia, Professor Racculia worked for the Princeton University Investment Company and is a CAIA charter holder.