Paul is a member of the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and has been an integral part of the Columbia Business School Value Investing Program for over 30 years. As an Adjunct Professor at CBS, he has taught 64 semester-long courses on securities analysis and value investing to more than 3,500 full-time and executive MBA students. Paul received the Columbia Business School Executive MBA Commitment to Excellence award five times (2016, 2017, 2019 and twice in 2022) in recognition of his outstanding commitment to the students’ educational experience, as well as the Columbia Business School’s Dean’s Prize for Teaching Excellence in April 2017. Paul has taught courses on Value Investing, Global Macroeconomics, and Financial Markets at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and lectured at Notre Dame University Business School. Paul is one of the co-directors of the Wharton Online–Wall Street Prep Applied Value Investing Certificate Program. Paul hosts a webinar series on YouTube called The Value of Growth, which will be published as a hardcover book in 2026.
Paul also has been an Adjunct Professor at the Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, since 2015, where he teaches Value Investing. Paul received the Gabelli School of Business graduate-level Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence in May 2017 and the Adjunct Faculty Dean’s Award for Impact in May 2021. Paul also taught courses in Digital Currency and Blockchain.
Paul is co-author with Paul Sonkin of Pitch the Perfect Investment, The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street, published in September 2017, and of The Enduring Value of Roger Murray, which was published in November 2022. Paul was a contributing annotator to The Most Important Thing, Illuminated, by Howard Marks (a book Warren Buffett considers to be one of the three most important investment books published); co-author of the history of value investing in Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas, a book celebrating the school’s 100-year anniversary; and co-author of The Gorilla Game, Picking Winners in High Technology, which reached BusinessWeek’s bestseller list in 1998.
Paul has an MBA in Finance from the Executive Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
