Jonathan Glover

Biography

Jonathan Glover is a Professor of Accounting in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.  Prior to joining Columbia in 2015, Professor Glover was the Richard M. Cyert Professor of Management and Economics and Professor of Accounting at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.  Jonathan’s research is on accounting theory and information economics.  The topics he has worked on include earnings management, financial accounting standard setting and regulation, corporate governance, individual vs. team incentives, various aspects of capital budgeting such as the interaction between real options and incentives, performance measurement, and managerial compensation. 

Jonathan received his Ph.D. in accounting from The Ohio State University.  He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1992 and served the University in numerous capacities, including as Head of the Ph.D. Program at the Tepper School 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 an editor of The Accounting Review and serves or has served on other editorial boards, including those of the Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research (as an ad-hoc editor), and Management Science (as an associate editor). He is a member of the board of nominations of the Accounting Hall of Fame and has served on a wide variety of committees of the American Accounting Association, including as the 2007 Doctoral Consortium Committee Chair and as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Committee from 2009-2012.

Teaching

Fall 2017

Earnings Quality & Fundamental Analysis (MBA)
Earnings Quality & Fundamental Analysis (EMBA)

Summer 2017

(PhD) Accounting & Information Economics (PHD)

Spring 2017

Earnings Quality & Fundamental Analysis (MBA)
Earnings Quality & Fundamental Analysis (EMBA)

Summer 2016

(PhD) Accounting & Information Economics (PHD)

Spring 2016

Earnings Quality & Fundamental Analysis (MBA)

Summer 2015

(PhD) Accounting & Information Economics (PHD)

Spring 2015

Earnings Quality & Fundamental Analysis (MBA)

Summer 2014

(PhD) Accounting & Information Economics (PHD)

Spring 2014

(PhD) Analytical Topics in Accounting (PHD)

Research

Journal articles

Relational Contracts With and Between Agents In Journal of Accounting and Economics (forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Tim Baldenius, Jonathan Glover, Hao Xue

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