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HighlightsOwner and Director of National Technology Transfer
Strategic Advisor to Post Secondary Education Companies
Equity Analyst on Wall Street for 10-Years
Named to Institutional Investor’s (II) All-America Research Team
Recognized as the #2 Services Analyst by Greenwich Survey
Testified before Secretary Spelling
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Howard Block continues to focus his professional lens on the struggle that exists between making money and making good in education. He believes that a successful future in education rests with this precarious yet vibrant relationship.
Dr. Block’s public commentary about education began in earnest on Wall Street in 1997 when he joined a boutique investment bank (Robertson Stephens) in San Francisco. Howard established the firm’s research practice in education services, and he quickly garnered recognition as a member of Institutional Investor’s (II) All-America Research Team. Howard’s reputation grew on Wall Street when he joined Bank of America (formerly Montgomery Securities) where he garnered recognition, including several years on the Institutional Investor All America Research Team.
Howard was distinguished on Wall Street as the only analyst in the sector with a doctorate in education policy. This unique academic background, which he attained at Stanford University, empowered him to effectively evaluate the politicized and emerging nexus between business and education. Howard established a reputation as an original, independent, critical and creative thinker, often shedding light on issues that were not well understood by his audience – money managers, advisors, business managers and the broader public.
Howard published seminal work on e-learning, Internet-based advertising and gainful employment. His perspective on postsecondary education can be gleaned in a review of his testimony before Secretary Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
Since leaving Bank of America, Dr. Block has worked as a strategic advisor to postsecondary education companies. And, since being freed from various constraints imposed while a Wall Street analyst, he has been invited to sit on the boards of several companies. In 2009, Dr. Block became an owner-operator of National Technology Transfer (NTT), an industrial training company based in Denver. His involvement with NTT came to a very successful close in 2012 when NTT was sold to ECPI University.
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