Alfred Rappaport

Alfred Rappaport (born 1932; resided in La Jolla, California

popularized by his 1986 book, Creating Shareholder Value.

He is the Leonard Spacek Professor Emeritus at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and was chairman of Chicago consulting firm The Alcar Group, and served as its chairman. Alcar designed financial modeling products used to analyze the monetary impact of various business strategies, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and debt restructuring. which then rebranded to LEK/Alcar Consulting Group LLC. From the mid-1990s, the company pioneered value-based management (VBM), based on Rappaport's academic work. The company merged with software maker Hyperion Solutions in 2003.

He was a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, BusinessWeek,

His published books include:

Creating Shareholder Value: The New Standard for Business Performance'''; Simon and Schuster. 13 October 1999. Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns''; Harvard Business School publishing; with Michael Mauboussin (2001)