Charles G. Callard

Charles "Chuck" Gordon Callard (2 June 1923–1 May 2004) was born in Lansing, Michigan. He was a pilot on an aircraft carrier while serving in the United States Navy during World War II and then earned his MBA at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1947. Callard taught statistics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for several years. In 1969 he started Callard, Madden & Associates. The insights that he developed became a bridge between academic finance and the worlds of corporate finance and asset management. Callard was the first in the inflationary 1970s to adjust standard accounting data so that they would conform with the financial concepts then being developed at the Graduate School of Business. He recognized...