Richard P. Brief

– Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Accounting

Joined Stern 1970

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West Fourth Street, 7-183
New York, NY 10012

Biography

Richard Brief joined the School of Commerce at New York University in 1961 as an Instructor in Business Statistics and in 1970 he became Professor of Statistics and Accounting at New York University Stern School of Business. In 1973, he was a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth and in 1976, he was a Visiting Professor at Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro. He also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at NYU Stern from 1988 to 1994 when he returned to the faculty. Professor Brief retired in 2006.

Professor Brief taught courses in statistical inference, regression analysis and quality control at the undergraduate level; statistics in the M.B.A. Program; and accounting history, accounting theory and the history of accounting thought in the M.B.A. and Ph.D. Programs. These were also Professor Brief's major research interests. He edited more than 250 books in these areas - reprints of significant Ph.D. dissertations, anthologies and classical historical works.

In 1955, Professor Brief received an A.B. from Dartmouth College. After serving in the Air Force from 1955-1957, he received an M.B.A. from the Tuck School in 1958. He also received a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 1964.