Entered McGill University at the age of 16. Graduated from McGill with a B.A. in 1957 and an BCL in 1961, although he never took the bar exam. That same year, he entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an M.B.A. degree with a distinction of honor. He also received an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 1962.