Faculty
Accounting Group faculty represent a wide variety of expertise in areas such as executive compensation, taxation, financial accounting, and corporate disclosure practices.
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Paul Asquith
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance
Paul Asquith is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Asquith is a specialist in corporate finance and a media source for the field of corporate finance and control, including…
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John E. Core
Nanyang Technological University Professor of Accounting
John E. Core is the Nanyang Technological University Professor and a Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Core has broad research interests in executive compensation and executive stock and option incentives, corporate…
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Michelle Hanlon
Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research
Michelle Hanlon is the Howard W. Johnson Professor, a Professor of Accounting, and Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management Hanlon’s primary teaching at Sloan is the Taxes and Business Strategy class. She has won…
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S.P. Kothari
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance
S.P. Kothari is Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Professor Kothari has senior executive experience in government, academia, and industry with expertise in strategic and policy issues,…
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Matt Phillips
Hear name pronounced.Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor
Matt Phillips is the Silverman (1968) Family Careeer Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Matt’s research primarily investigates how firms’ informational properties affect…
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Nemit Shroff
School of Management Distinguished Professor
Nemit Shroff is the School of Management Distinguished Professor and a Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Shroff’s primary research interest concerns whether and why accounting disclosures such as audited financial…
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Andrew Gordon Sutherland
Associate Professor, Accounting
Andrew Sutherland is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on financial institutions, and covers three broad areas: (1) how entrepreneurs and privately held firms obtain credit; (2)…
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Rodrigo Verdi
Hear name pronounced.Deputy Dean for Degree Programs, Teaching and Learning
Rodrigo Verdi is the Deputy Dean for Degree Programs, Teaching and Learning and the Nanyang Technological University Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He joined MIT Sloan in 2006 after receiving a PhD from the University…
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Felix W. Vetter
Assistant Professor, Accounting
Felix Vetter is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His primary fields of research include regulation, audit markets, labor economics, and real effects of disclosure and transparency in labor markets. He…
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Joseph P. Weber
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management
Joseph Weber is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management and a Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent…
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Chloe L. Xie
Zenon Zannetos (1955) Career Development Assistant Professor in Accounting
Chloe Xie is the Zenon Zannetos (1955) Career Development Assistant Professor in Accounting and an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Her research focuses on capital market imperfections – such as limits to…
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Jake Cohen
Senior Associate Dean; Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Ethics, and Law
Jake Cohen is Senior Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Ethics, and Law at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the school’s leadership team, where his focus is on initiating and enhancing MIT Sloan’s strategic global…
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Bala Dharan
Visiting Professor, Accounting
Bala Dharan is Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and J. Howard Creekmore Professor Emeritus at Rice University. He is also a managing director at Berkeley Research Group, a litigation and business consulting firm…
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Christopher F. Noe
Senior Lecturer, Accounting
Christopher Noe is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the Sloan School of Management. Noe specializes in the fields of financial accounting and corporate finance. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at MIT Sloan, Noe was a vice president at…
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Ross L. Watts
Professor, Accounting, Emeritus
Ross Watts is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management, Emeritus and Professor of Accounting, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His book Positive Accounting Theory, coauthored with Jerold Zimmerman, continues to be used in…
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