Timothy A. Luehrman is a finance academic, formerly a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.[1] He is best known for his work on valuation and real options; specifically, he conceived the idea of treating business strategy as a series of options,[2] and his papers here[3][4] are widely quoted.
His research focuses on international corporate finance, advanced valuation techniques, and long-horizon financial management. He has published numerous books, research articles and case studies for both scholars and practitioners.[1]
He has held appointments at the MIT Sloan School of Management, IMD and the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He was also a managing director at Standard & Poor’s Corporate Value Consulting division and a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. During 2003–2004 he was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Option Valuation Group.[1]
He received his B.A. in economics from Amherst College (1979), MBA from Harvard Business School (1983), and Ph.D. in business economics from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1986).[1]