We Need a Hero

December 21, 2012 By Steve

The current for-profit banking system is not ideal for serving some areas of our public life. In the last blog entry (link), I offered two instances, Jack Bogle’s Vanguard Group and Andrew Carnegie’s founding of TIAA-CREF, where not-for- profit structures served dramatically … [Read more...]

John C. “Jack” Bogle is a hero

December 13, 2012 By Steve

John C. “Jack” Bogle is a financial hero. His heroism benefitted millions of Americans. He founded the Vanguard Group of investment companies based on a senior thesis he wrote while a 20-year-old at Princeton. In it, he wondered why all the mutual funds were owned and controlled … [Read more...]

Steven G. Blum has been teaching in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania since 1994.

In addition to teaching semester-long courses for undergraduate and MBA students, Mr. Blum has taught in Wharton Executive Education programs, lectured and consulted widely, and frequently leads seminars and educational forums. Mr. Blum has five times won the William G. Whitney Award for outstanding teaching.

He holds the degrees of Masters of Laws and Juris Doctor. He also earned a Masters Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Specialization in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard. In addition to teaching and consulting, Steven maintains a practice of law and is a registered investment advisor. He has a strong research interest in the area of ethics and fiduciary duty. His book entitled Negotiating Your Investments was published by Wiley in April 2014.