Bowen H. "Buzz" McCoy

Buzz Mc Coy directed Morgan Stanley’s real estate finance activities for 13 years and its West Coast activities for five years. He was born in San Francisco and attended Stanford University, graduating with a degree in Economics.  He later went on to Harvard Business School, where he received his M.B.A.  Mr. Mc Coy served in Korea in the United States Army, Intelligence Branch.  He began working for Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. in 1962, and he was an owner of the firm for twenty years.  In 1990 he retired, and he presently spends his time as a real estate and business counselor, an educator and a philanthropist.  Mr. McCoy teaches courses on business ethics, as well as Christian theology and literature, at graduate business schools as well as churches and seminaries. He has served as Executive-in-Residence at both the Stanford and Notre Dame Graduate Schools of Business; and as Adjunct Professor, Pacific School of Religion, UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Graduate Real Estate Program at USC. He has published 80 magazine articles on the subjects of business ethics or real estate finance. He has published two books: The Dynamics of Real Estate Capital Markets: A Practitioner’s Perspective (Urban Land Institute, 2006) and  Living Into Leadership: A Journey in Ethics (Stanford University Press, 2007).  He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Council to the USC Thornton School of Music, and as a member of the Photography Council of the Getty Museum, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Music Center Foundation.  Mr. Mc Coy has received writing awards from Harvard Business Review and Real Estate Counselor.  He has funded a campus wide ethics center at Stanford University and a fellowship in ethics at Harvard Business School.