Daniel P. McMurrer
Chief Research Officer
Mr. McMurrer is responsible for research at Bassi Investments and also serves
on its Investment Committee. In addition, he is the Vice President
for Research at McBassi & Company (www.mcbassi.com),
an independent research-based consulting firm, and he is also a
Research Fellow at Accenture's Institute for Strategic Change. Prior
to joining Bassi Investments, he was a research manager
at Saba Software in Redwood Shores, California, and a senior research
associate at the American Society for Training & Development
in Alexandria, Virginia. At both organizations, Mr. McMurrer worked
closely with Dr. Laurie Bassi, Board Chair of Bassi Investments, on ground-breaking
research in a variety of areas of human capital, including the development
and creation of internationally recognized standards for measuring
and valuing firms' learning investments and outcomes. These metrics
have now been used by thousands of organizations across the world.
Much of his recent research has focused on the relationship between
firms' human capital investments and their overall market and financial
performance, research that represents much of the foundation of
the Bassi Investments investment strategy.
Mr. McMurrer worked previously as a research associate at the Urban
Institute in Washington, D.C., where his research focused on issues
related to opportunity and mobility in the United States. His book
based on this research, Getting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility
in America (co-authored with Isabel Sawhill), was published
in 1998. He also worked as a researcher with the federal Advisory
Council on Unemployment Compensation in the U.S. Department of Labor,
and served recently as a member of the Brookings Institution's taskforce
on valuing intangible assets. He is also the author or co-author
of many other publications, including Workplace Training for
Lower-Wage Workers (2003, Upjohn Institute Press) and
“Training Investment Can Mean Financial Performance” (Training
& Development).
Mr. McMurrer lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He holds an M.P.P.
in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Politics
from Princeton University. He is a registered investment advisor.
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