Joel M. Stern is the founder, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of three firms: Stern Value Management (SVM), Stern Solutions Capital Partners (SSCP), and Stern Learning Systems (SLS). For 17 years,  Stern was a rotating panelist on the television program Wall Street with Louis Rukeyser and more recently has been a regular guest on Bloomberg Television and radio programs expressing his opinion on economic and political issues. His most recent book is The EVA Challenge (2001) co-authored with John Shiely. He was a regular financial policy columnist for the Financial Times of London and has made frequent contributions to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. More recently he has been a regular columnist for FinWeek. He teaches at six graduate business schools around the world. Joel has advised more than 2,500 firms in his career, more than 900 of them as part of SVM.