Melvin T. Tukman

Melvin T. Tukman
Alma materHunter College
Harvard Business School
Occupation(s)Asset manager, investor, philanthropist
SpouseLois Tukman

Melvin T. Tukman is an American asset manager, investor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management, an investment firm based in Larkspur, California. He has managed capital for the International Monetary Fund and Stanford University. He is a large donor to the Harvard Business School.

Early life

Melvin Theodore Tukman graduated from Hunter College, where he received a bachelor of arts degree.[1] He received a master in business administration from the Harvard Business School in 1966.[1][2]

Career

Tukman began his career as an investment manager in 1971.[1]

With Dan Grossman, Tukman co-founded Tukman Grossman Capital Management, an investment firm formerly known as Tukman Capital Management based in Larkspur, California, in 1980.[2][3][4] Their initial investment was US$11 million.[3] By 1991, the firm has US$496 million of assets under management, and it invested capital for Stanford University and the International Monetary Fund.[5] Some of its investments included shareholdings in Ralston Purina, Anheuser-Busch and GEICO.[5] By 1995, the firm was the fourth largest shareholder of CBS and the seventh largest shareholder of Capital Cities Communications (totalling 2.3 million shares).[3][6][7]

Philanthropy

Tukman has made charitable donations to his alma mater, the Harvard Business School.[2] He endowed the Mel Tukman Dean’s Fund at the HBS in 1999, which funded the Tukman Fellowship, awarded to academics Dennis W. Campbell, Noam T. Wasserman, Scott A. Snook and Shikhar Ghosh.[2] In March 2015, the fellowship was renamed the Mel Tukman Senior Lectureship after he donated to the Harvard Business School Campaign.[2]

With his wife, Tukman supports the Lois and Mel Tukman Endowed Assistant Professorship at Cornell University, which is held by Tashara Marie Leak.[8] They have also donated to New Leaders.[9]

Personal life

Tukman has a wife, Lois, who formerly served on the board of trustees of The Branson School.[10] They summer in Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard, where they have owned a summer house since 1989.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Company Overview of Tukman Grossman Capital Management, Inc.: Melvin Theodore Tukman". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e "COMMITTED TO HBS'S SUCCESS: Keeping HBS Competitive". Harvard Business School. March 1, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Greenberg, Herb (August 2, 1995). "Larkspur Investor Mel Tukman Proves That Patience Pays / He's one of biggest investors in both CBS and Cap Cities". sfgate.com. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  4. ^ Dumaine, Brian (January 7, 1985). "WINNING WITH STOCKS THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY Three investment advisory firms have outrun the slow-footed pack by hunting down undervalued companies". Fortune. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Hylton, Richard D. (January 5, 1991). "Money Managers Fell Behind the Indexes in 1990". The New York Times. Retrieved February 8, 2016. Last year's leader, Tukman Capital Management Inc. of Larkspur, Calif., was in positive territory, however, with a 12.5 percent gain for the year, CDA reported. Tukman, which also registered the best gains for the last five years -- a 135 percent increase -- concentrates its investments in a few high-quality issues. It has capital under management for institutions like Stanford University and the International Monetary Fund, and those holdings have grwn rapidly in the last few months.
  6. ^ Greenberg, Herb (August 1, 1995). "Merger Should Be Good for Disney Stock Owners / Cap Cities holders face big dilemma -- cash and/or stock?". sfgate.com. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  7. ^ Greenberg, Herb (February 9, 1996). "Disney's Takeover of Cap Cities Is No Mickey Mouse Affair / Investors must pick stock, cash or a little of both". sfgate.com. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  8. ^ "Lois and Mel Tukman Endowed Assistant Professorship (Leak, Tashara)". Cornell University. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  9. ^ "Philanthropic Partners". New Leaders. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  10. ^ "Trustees Emeriti". Branson. Archived from the original on January 21, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  11. ^ "Really Big Houses at Issue, And Chilmarkers Weigh In". Vineyard Gazette. January 5, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2016. We've been Vineyard summer renters since 1970 and homeowners since 1989.