The Alta Companies were founded in 1970 by John Van Slyke Jr. to provide business entities for his many business interests.Over the years, The Alta Companies have completed a wide range of consulting projects for selected clients, developed state-of-the-art financial software products used by Wall Street firms; and is now publishing print, epublications, and multimedia products for accountable business people at the heart of the economy.

Alta Research is a policy-level consulting firm that provides management and financial advisory services to selected clients.We compete only at the top end of the market. We specialize in sensitive, high-stakes work with selected clients in the areas of business governance, litigation support, and landmark business negotiations and transactions in private markets. Over the years, we have built our reputation by consistent attention to the highest levels of excellence in our services to clients and our unquestioned integrigy.We have a distinguished record of achievement in these kinds of matters during five major economic and capital market cycles in the United States. We also are well connected to key players in a number of different areas of importance to our clients.Of necessity, our work must be equal to or better than services that are provided by the best firms in the consulting business, including McKinsey, Bain & Co., Boston Consulting Group, and the best banking and law firms on Wall Street.

Morgan Hall Publications is the imprint of The Alta Companies. The company publishes conventional printed trade books for selected authors. Morgan Hall specializes in meeting the needs of authors whose aim is to produce very high quality books and who do not wish, for whatever reason, to do business with large publishing companies. Publications of the company are sharply focused on current challenges in business leadership, applied corporate finance, and personal economic strategy.Since 1990, Morgan Hall Publications has also provided high-end pre-press services, including editing, and page layout to selected clients. Clients have included Thompson Steele Publications major projects for leading textbook publishers such as HarperCollins, Prentice Hall, McGraw Hill, Jones and Bartlett, Houghton Mifflin, and others.

Alta Research Institute is a non profit organization. Using both internal resources and relationships with leading experts, Alta Research Institute conducts continuing investigations of key issues and common threads related to (a) national economic policy (b) the creation of real economic value of business assets (d) capital formation in the private sector of the U.S. economy and (e) the economics of personal existence in the U.S.