Bruce E. Stangle


Bruce Edward Stangle is an American economist who served as the chief executive officer of Analysis Group from 1981 to 2004. He and Michael F. Koehn co-founded the management consultancy in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts. After stepping down as chief executive Stangle continued to lead Analysis Group as chairman until 2016. He began his career as a senior economist for Arthur D. Little from 1978 to 1980.

Education

Stangle graduated from Bates College in 1970 with a B.A. in English. He went on to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's graduate Sloan School of Management, where he received an M.S. in management in 1974 and a Ph.D. in applied economics in 1978. His doctoral dissertation, Price Determination in the Markets for Beef, was advised by MIT's M.A. Adelman, Paul Joskow, and Lester Thurow.

Career

After graduating from business school, Stangle joined management consulting firm Arthur D. Little as a senior economist in Boston, Massachusetts until 1980. A year later Stangle and Michael F. Koehn co-founded Analysis Group as a management consultant that focused on litigation and expert witnesses. Stangle served as the first chief executive of the firm from its founding to 2004. He continued to lead Analysis Group as chairman of its board of directors until 2016. He serves as an expert witness for and provides testimonies in litigation cases on class certification, market definition, entry conditions, competitive effects, securities valuation, and damages.
Outside of Analysis Group, Stangle has written opinion columns for India's The Economic Times. In the summer of 2005, he co-authored an article on behavioral finance and the efficient market hypothesis with economists Burton Malkiel and Sendhil Mullainathan for the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.

Personal life

Stangle is married to Emily Siegel Stangle.
He served as a trustee for Bates from 1998 to 2012, and has, since then, served as trustee emeritus. Over his fourteen years as trustee, Stangle endowed an economics and law fund, a professorship in applied economics, and a residential lounge. At the end of tenure as trustee, the college established the "Stangle Award" for alumni who contribute to professional development of college graduates. In May 2014, Stangle donated US$750,000 to the college. From 1994 until 1998, Stangle was a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation. He also served as a member of the Visiting Committee of the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2002 through 2008.

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