Fabrizio Ferri

Fabrizio Ferri joined the Miami Herbert Business School's faculty in 2018 and teaches financial and managerial accounting. Professor Ferri's research interests focus primarily on corporate governance issues, with particular emphasis on shareholder activism, boards of directors, executive compensation and ESG. He is the co-director of the Governance and Principled Leadership Research Cluster.”

His research has been presented at numerous international and national conferences and has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Corporate Finance. Media mentions to note include The New York Times, Business Week, Forbes, Barron's, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Financial Times and CFO Magazine. He is currently an editor for The Accounting Review and an associate editor for Management Science, and was an editor at The Contemporary Accounting Research in 2017-2023. He received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from The Accounting Review, an Excelling in refereeing Award from the Journal of Accounting Research (three times) and was included by Poets & Quants among the Favorite MBA Professors of the Class of 2020. He is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Professor Ferri earned a B.S. cum laude in Economics and Business Administration from La Sapienza Rome University, and an MBA and Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business (New York University). Prior to joining the University of Miami, he taught graduate, undergraduate, doctoral and executive courses at Harvard Business School (2004-2009), Stern School of Business NYU (2009-2011) and Columbia Business School (2011-2018), and worked as a consultant at Stern Stewart & Co, specializing in performance measurement and executive pay.

Education

New York University PhD, 2005

New York University MBA, 1998

University La Sapienza BS, 1995

Training

Director, PhD Programs Miami Herbert Business School

Associate Professor Miami Herbert Business School

Associate Professor Columbia Business School, 2013-2018

Doctoral Program Coordinator Columbia Business School, 2013-2017

Assistant Professor Columbia Business School, 2011-2013

Visiting Assistant Professor Stern School of Business, 2009-2011

Assistant Professor Harvard Business School, 2004-2009

Honors & Awards

Excellence in Refereeing Award Journal of Accounting Research, 2022

Excellence in Refereeing Award Journal of Accounting Research, 2021

Excellence in Refereeing Award Journal of Accounting Research, 2020

Favorite MBA Professors of the Class of 2020 Poets & Quants, 2020

Outstanding Reviewer Award The Accounting Review, 2020

Co-Winner of Best Paper Award John L. Weinberg Center Corporate Governance Symposium, 2015

Co-Winner of Best Paper Award John L. Weinberg Center Corporate Governance Symposium, 2012

Best Paper Management Accounting Section Mid-Year Conference, 2009

Outstanding Paper in Corporate Finance EFA Annual Meeting, 2007

Research Interests

List of Specialties: Corporate Governance, Shareholder Activism, Executive Compensation, Boards Of Directors