OPERATIONS FORENSICS Published by the MIT Press
RICHARD LAI
Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm’s operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and influence the valuation of a firm...
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Richard Lai works in a hedge fund. "Operations Forensics" is the text he wrote for the popular "Operations Performance Analysis" MBA course he taught as a faculty member of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2011.
Prior to Wharton, he worked in banking (DBS Bank), management consulting (McKinsey and Bain), and wealth management, in a firm he co-founded and ran until it was sold to Aviva, one of the world's largest insurers.
He obtained his doctorate from the Harvard Business School and his master and bachelor degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is also a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
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“Richard Lai provides a seminal and practical operations-centric approach to (1) distill performance indicators, (2) assess the internal operations from an external investor’s perspective, and (3) improve and turn around the operations from an internal management’s perspective. Anyone interested in linking operational and financial performance should master this text.”
Jan Van Mieghem, Harold L. Stuart Distinguished Professor of Managerial Economics; Professor of Operations Management, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
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