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Anthony Hopwood
1944 - 2010 (66 years)
Anthony George Hopwood was a British accounting academic at Oxford University. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Accounting, Organizations and Society and Dean of the Saïd Business School. Life and career Hopwood was born in 1944 in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. He grew up in nearby Burslem and attended Hanley High School. He then studied accountancy at the London School of Economics. In 1965, he moved to Chicago as a Fulbright scholar to attend the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. There he completed his MBA and PhD.
Go to ProfileJ. Richard Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Practice at Villanova University School of Law and Graduate Tax Program. He joined the faculty in 2010, and previously served as professor at Bucknell University and The College of New Jersey. He is a frequent speaker quoted in the press, and has delivered speeches to the Canadian Tax Foundation, Multistate Tax Commission, American Bar Association, Tax Executive Institute, Wall Street Tax Association, and the Institute for International Bankers. He has also testified before the United States Congress on the international tax planning done by Apple, Inc.
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Vijay Govindarajan
1949 - Present (75 years)
Vijay Govindarajan , popularly known as VG, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow, 2015–16 at Harvard Business School. He is a Faculty Partner in the Silicon Valley Incubator Mach49. He worked as General Electric's innovation consultant and professor in residence from 2008 to 2010. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author and a two-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best article published in Harvard Business Review. VG was inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame in 2019 for his life-long work dedicated to the field of management, strategy, and innovation.
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Mary Barra
1961 - Present (63 years)
Mary Teresa Barra is an American businesswoman who has been the chair and chief executive officer of General Motors since January 15, 2014. She is the first female CEO of a 'Big Three' automaker. In December 2013, GM named her to succeed Daniel Akerson as CEO. Prior to being named CEO, Barra was executive vice president of global product development, purchasing, and supply chain.
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C. K. Prahalad
1941 - 2010 (69 years)
Personal Life Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was an Indian-American entrepreneur and author. He was born to a stay at home mother and a father who was a judge. He was married to a woman named Gayatri, and shared two children with her - a son named Murali and a daughter named Deepa. Prahalad had three grandchildren.
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H. Thomas Johnson
1938 - Present (86 years)
H. Thomas Johnson is an American accounting historian, and Professor of Business Administration at Portland State University, known for his work on the history of accounting and accounting thought Life and work Johnson obtained his BA in economics from Harvard University and his MBA in accounting from Rutgers University. He obtained a PhD in economic history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He went on to earn a Certified Public Accountant license.
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Richard L. Daft
1941 - Present (83 years)
Richard L. Daft is an American organizational theorist and the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. Biography Daft holds a B.S. from the University of Nebraska, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
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Gary John Previts
1942 - Present (82 years)
Gary John Previts an American accountant, is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University . From 1979 to June 30, 2023 he was Professor of Accountancy in the Weatherhead School of Management teaching undergraduate, masters, and doctoral courses. He is known for his work on the history of the theory and practice of accountancy.
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Laura Tyson
1947 - Present (77 years)
Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and university administrator who is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley and a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute. She served as the 16th Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and 2nd Director of the National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. Tyson was the first woman to hold each of those posts. She remains the only person to have served in both posts.
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Herman Aguinis
1966 - Present (58 years)
Herman Aguinis is a researcher, business professor, and author. He is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C. He has been ranked among the world's top 100 most influential economics and business researchers in the world every year since 2018. He served as President of the Academy of Management , and has been inducted into The PhD Project Hall of Fame. Prior to moving to Washington D.C. in 2016, he was the John F. Mee Chair of Management and the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Or...
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Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi
1950 - Present (74 years)
Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi is the John E. Rhodes Professor of Accounting at Bentley University, having held the position since 1988. In 2007, he was inducted into the Northeast Region of the American Accounting Association Hall of Fame . He has contributed to more than 100 publications, including many articless and books on internal auditing. He has been the recipient of funding from various granting agencies, including four from The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation CBOK 2010, CBOK 2006, a monograph on "Continuous Internal Auditing" in 2005, and another monograph on "CAE...
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Douglas A. Shackelford
Douglas A. Shackelford is an American professor and academic administrator. He served as the dean of the Kenan–Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until September of 2022, where he is also the Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation.
Go to ProfileRichard A. Bettis is the Ellison Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is known for his work on corporate strategy, global business strategy and strategic management. He is a former president of the Strategic Management Society and was the Co-Editor of Strategic Management Journal from 2007-2015.
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Alison Davis-Blake
1958 - Present (66 years)
Alison Davis-Blake is an American academic administrator. She served as the eighth president of Bentley University. Before Bentley, she served as dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. At Ross, Davis-Blake was the school’s first female dean, and at the time of her appointment she was the highest-ranking female dean at any U.S. business school.
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Gerald A. Feltham
1938 - 2019 (81 years)
Gerald Albert Feltham was a Canadian accounting researcher and educator. He was Professor Emeritus at the Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia. He also served on the faculty of Stanford University.
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R. Edward Freeman
1951 - Present (73 years)
Robert Edward Freeman is an American philosopher and professor of business administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia, particularly known for his work on stakeholder theory and on business ethics.
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Paul R. Lawrence
1922 - 2011 (89 years)
Paul Roger Lawrence was an American sociologist, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School, and consultant, known from his work with Jay W. Lorsch on "Differentiation and integration in complex organizations."
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Bernd Schmitt
1957 - Present (67 years)
Bernd Herbert Schmitt is a professor of international business in the marketing department at Columbia Business School, Columbia University in New York. He is known for his research, books, speaking and consulting on customer experience, customer happiness, branding, innovation and for his work in Asia on Asian markets and consumers. He wrote several influential books in these areas like Experiential Marketing, Customer Experience Management, Big Think Strategy and Happy Customers Everywhere.
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Robert Gray
1952 - Present (72 years)
Robert Hugh Gray FCCA, FCA, MBE, was Professor of Social and Environmental Accounting at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Until recently he was also the Director of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research . He died in June 2020.
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Nicholas Dopuch
1929 - 2018 (89 years)
Nicholas Dopuch was an American accounting researcher and educator. He was a professor at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2006, Dopuch was named to the Accounting Hall of Fame. His 1993 article, "A Perspective on Cost Drivers" , is an example of why Dopuch was named to the Accounting Hall of Fame. All serious management accounting researchers should read and embrace this concise classic.
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Mark Nigrini
1957 - Present (67 years)
Mark J. Nigrini, born in Cape Town, South Africa, is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Nigrini is best known for his work on using Benford's Law as an auditing and accounting tool to detect anomalies in company data. He is the author of Forensic Analytics which describes data analytics tests designed to detect fraud, errors, estimates, and biases in financial data. He is also the author of Benford's Law. Benford's Law gives the expected patterns of the digits in tabulated data and it has been ...
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Christian Leuz
1967 - Present (57 years)
Christian Leuz is a German business economist, specializing in finance, accounting, and institutional economics. He is the Charles F. Pohl Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Anne Fortin
1955 - Present (69 years)
Anne Fortin is an American/Canadian accounting academic and Professor of Accounting at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is known for her study on "Users' participation in the accounting standard-setting process."
Go to ProfileJonathan L. Rogers is an American accounting scholar who holds the Tisone Endowed Chair of Accounting at the University of Colorado-Boulder's Leeds School of Business. Early career Rogers received his bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. Subsequently, he worked as a certified management accountant and a certified financial manager . He then entered the PhD in accounting from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his PhD in 2005.
Go to ProfileChristopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, England, and a Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. Marquis's research takes a sociological perspective and focuses on corporate strategies, entrepreneurship and social innovation, building sustainable businesses, and doing business in China. He is the author of the award-winning books Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism and and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise
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Peter Lindgren
1961 - Present (63 years)
Peter Lindgren is a Danish organizational theorist, and Professor at Aarhus University's Department of Business and Technology, known for his research involving firms' business models, including about interdependence of partner firms' business models and about innovation..
Go to ProfileRussell Cropanzano is an American management scholar. As of 2022, he is a professor of organizational behavior at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. Education and career Cropanzano gained a BA in psychology from Louisiana State University and an MA from Southern Methodist University . His doctorate in industrial/organizational psychology is from Purdue University ; his dissertation is titled "A Conceptual Analysis of Organizational Plans".
Go to ProfileLillian F. Mills is an American accountant and the first female dean of the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. Mills completed bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting at the University of Florida in 1980 and 1981, respectively, before moving to the University of Michigan to earn a doctorate in the subject, where she was advised by Joel Slemrod and published the dissertation Essays in Corporate Tax Compliance and Financial Reporting in 1996. She was a research fellow at the United States Department of the Treasury and worked as a certified public accountant for two firms from 1981 to 1989 before joining the University of Arizona faculty in 1997.
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William Ouchi
1943 - Present (81 years)
William G. "Bill" Ouchi is an American professor and author in the field of business management. He is the Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizations, Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Chair in Corporate Renewal at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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Ram Mudambi
1954 - Present (70 years)
Ram Mudambi is the Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. He has published over a hundred refereed journal articles and six books on the multinational strategies of entrepreneurial firms; the location and research and development strategies of multinational firmss, and the politics of international business. Mudambi serves as a co-editor of the Global Strategy Journal published by the Strategic Management Society . He also serves as a department editor at the Journal of International Business Policy published by the Academy of International Business .
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Nitin Nohria
1962 - Present (62 years)
Nitin Nohria is an Indian-American academic. He was the tenth dean of Harvard Business School. He is also the George F. Baker Professor of Administration. He is a former non-executive director of Tata Sons.
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Edward N. Coffman
1942 - 2014 (72 years)
Edward N. Coffman was an American accounting scholar and Professor of accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University. Coffman was especially known for his work on accounting history: its definition, relevance, and methodology.
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Paul J. H. Schoemaker
1949 - Present (75 years)
Paul J. H. Schoemaker is an academic, author, and an expert in the fields of strategic management and decision making. He is listed among the most highly cited scholars globally as measured by academic publications in leading journals of business and economics.
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Stephen R. Barley
1953 - Present (71 years)
Stephen R. Barley is an American organizational theorist and Christian A. Felipe Professor of Technology Management at the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Previously he was The Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Barley's research focuses on the role of technology in organizational change and organizational/occupational culture.
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Dawn Iacobucci
1960 - Present (64 years)
Dawn Iacobucci is an American quantitative psychologist and marketing researcher, Professor in Marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management, known for her work in the field of foundations of marketing research.
Go to ProfileDr. Karim Jamal, CA, is Chartered Accountants' Distinguished Chair in Accounting, and a professor at the University of Alberta School of Business. He has a Fellowship at the Institute for United States Policy Studies. He is a professor of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Management Control, Accounting Theory and Auditing, as well as a few MBA courses. Dr. Karim is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta , American Accounting Association , and the Canadian Academic Accounting Association . Jamal has a BComm from the University of Manitoba, an MSc from the Univ...
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Rita Gunther McGrath
1959 - Present (65 years)
Rita Gunther McGrath is an American strategic management scholar and professor of management at the Columbia Business School. She is known for her work on strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, including the development of discovery-driven planning.
Go to ProfileChristine Cooper is a British accounting academic. She holds a Chair in Accounting at the University of Edinburgh Business School and is co-editor-in-chief of Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Her research examines the economic, political and social impact of accounting.
Go to ProfileRobert E. Whaley is Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management and Director of the Financial Markets Research Center at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Whaley developed the Market Volatility Index for the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1993.
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Samuel Paul Garner
1910 - 1996 (86 years)
Samuel Paul Garner was an American accounting scholar, and Professor at the University of Alabama, known for his work "Evolution of cost accounting to 1925." Biography Born in Yadkinville, North Carolina to Samuel W. and Ila Jane Garner, Garner at Duke University obtained his AB in 1932, and his AM in 1934. He then moved to the University of Texas at Austin where he obtained his PhD in 1940 under supervision of George Hillis Newlove. He was awarded an honorary degree by the Pusan National University, and by the University of Alabama in 1971.
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