Prior to entering academia in 1997, he worked as a research analyst with Gordon Investment Corporation, a private equity group based out of Dallas, Texas, and as an acquisition consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he developed extensive experience working with CSR-based investments. His research has appeared in such mainstream publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg-BusinessWeek. He has taught finance courses in financial analysis and valuation, corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Portland State University, the University of New Hampshire and the University of Colorado, USA. He has published over 30 articles in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Columbia Law Review, and numerous other journals and books.