Ethan Rouen

Ethan Rouen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism, and the faculty co-chair of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at Harvard Business School.

His current research interest focuses on understanding economic inequality and the measurement of human capital. He has been awarded from the American Accounting Association the Competitive Manuscript Award, the Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal, and the Best Dissertation Award in the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. His research has been published in The Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, Management Science, and The Review of Accounting Studies, and his journalism and opinion articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, Le Monde, HuffPo, The Hill, CEOWORLD Magazine, and Fortune.com, among others. He appears frequently in national and international media outlets.

Professor Rouen earned a BA in history and English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MS in journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. From Columbia Business School, he received an MBA in finance and accounting, an M.Phil. in accounting, and a PhD in accounting.

AWARDS & HONORS

• Winner of the 2018 Best Dissertation Award from the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association for "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia Business School, 2017).
• Winner of the 2017 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association for “Financial Statement Irregularities: Evidence from the Distributional Properties of Financial Statement Numbers” (Review of Accounting Studies, 2015) with Dan Amiram and Zahn Bozanic.
• Received a 2016 Werner L. and Adriana Chilton Doctoral Fellowship from Columbia Business School.
• Selected as a Finalist for the 2015 Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award.
• Received the 2015 Third-Year Best Student Award from Columbia Business School.
• Received a 2015 Institute of Management Accountants Doctoral Student Grant.
• Selected as a 2015 Doctoral Fellow by the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School.
• Selected as a 2015 AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow by the American Accounting Association.
• Received a 2015 Paul and Sandra Montrone Doctoral Fellowship from Columbia Business School.
• Received a 2015 Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship.
• Winner of the 2014 Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award from the American Accounting Association, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section for “Financial Statement Irregularities: Evidence from the Distributional Properties of Financial Statement Numbers” (Review of Accounting Studies, 2015) with Dan Amiram and Zahn Bozanic.

AREAS OF INTEREST

• accounting
• corporate governance
• disclosure
• financial reporting
• labor management