Henry Eyring

Henry Eyring is an assistant professor in the accounting area at The Fuqua School of Business. Professor Eyring uses field experiments and large-sample data analysis to understand reporting, feedback, and incentive systems in the private and public sectors. He has conducted research with organizations including Cleveland Clinic, Stanford Health Care, the German Football Association, Kaiser Permanente, and HarvardX. His research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research.

Education

• Doctor of Business Administration Harvard Business School (2012 — 2017)
• Bachelor Brigham Young University - Idaho (2006 — 2012)

Companies

• Assistant Professor The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant Harvard Business School (2015 — 2016)
• Enrollment Committee Member BYU-Idaho (2010 — 2012)
• Intern Innosight (2008 — 2008)
• Intern Leucadia National Corporation (2007 — 2007)

Publications

Published:

• Less Information, More Comparison, and Better Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Patrick Ferguson and Sebastian Koppers), Journal of Accounting Research 59 (2021), 657-711.
• Disclosing Physician Ratings: Performance Effects and the Difficulty of Altering Ratings Consensus, Journal of Accounting Research 58(2020), 1023-1067.
• Performance Effects of Setting a High Reference Point for Peer-Performance Comparison (with V.G. Narayanan), Journal of Accounting Research 56 (2018), 581-615.

Working Papers:

• Performance Feedback on Stronger and Weaker Areas of Performance: the Role of Targets
• Making Health Care a Market: Evidence from Cleveland Clinic, Stanford Health Care, Geisinger, and University of Utah Health Care (first author, with Susannah Rose, Adrienne Boissy, Greg Burke, Paul Heidenreich, Charlton Park, Paul Maggio, Paul Sommer, Susan Gehrum, Pravene Nath, Kenny Shum, Carlos Montalvo, Candice Crawford, Jeffrey Young, Daniel Bokar, and Vivian Lee)