Carolyn Deller

rofessor Carolyn Deller is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the design and outcomes of management control systems used by organizations to enhance employees’ motivation, ability, and opportunity to reach their full potential. The control systems explored in her research include employee selection, incentive plans, employee evaluation systems, and the balanced scorecard. Professor Deller’s research typically involves the econometric analysis of within-firm archival data, though she has also utilized experimental methodologies.

Professor Deller enjoys teaching the undergraduate core course, Strategic Cost Analysis. She received a DBA (Accounting and Management) from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She was previously a Chartered Accountant at KPMG.