Jonathan Glover

George O. May Professor of Financial Accounting in the Faculty of Business: Accounting Division

Areas of Expertise: Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting & Auditing, Fundamental Investment Analysis, Managerial Accounting, Organizations & Markets

Contact: Office: 521 Kravis; Phone: (212) 8541911; E-mail: [email protected]

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Jonathan Glover is the George O. May Professor of Financial Accounting in the Accounting Division at Columbia Business School. His research seeks to understand the economics behind financial and managerial accounting practices. His broad areas of interest include corporate financial reporting, financial reporting standard setting and regulation, management accounting and control, corporate governance, incentive design, and other related mechanism design problems. He has conducted studies on earnings management, accounting conservatism, revenue accounting, historical cost accounting, the importance of reliability in financial reporting, the disciplining role of accounting, cost allocation, performance measurement (including non-financial performance measures), managerial compensation (including team-based incentives), capital budgeting, information design, and robust incentives. He has published more than 50 research papers in leading journals in accounting, economics, and related fields.

Before joining Columbia, Jonathan was on the faculty of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University from 1992-2015, where he taught a variety of MBA courses on financial and managerial accounting and a PhD course on accounting and information economics. He served as Head of the Ph.D. Program at Tepper from 2008-2011. He also held visiting positions at U.C. Berkeley in the spring of 2000 and at Columbia during 2014-2015. Professor Glover was an academic fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2004-2005.

Professor Glover is the managing editor of Foundations and Trends in Accounting and serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Accounting Studies, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Management Accounting Research. He has served as an editor of The Accounting Review, an associate editor of Management Science, and on the editorial boards of the The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Jonathan graduated from the Accounting Honors Program at The Ohio State University in 1988 and from Ohio State’s PhD Program in Accounting in 1992. Ohio State’s Omicron Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi awarded him their Alumnus of the Year Award in 2016.

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