Kothari

S.P. Kothari is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management, a Professor of Accounting, and Deputy Dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Previously, he served as Global Head of Equity Research for Barclays Global Investors (BGI), where he was responsible for research supporting BGI’s active equity strategies from 2008 to 2009. Prior to joining BGI, Kothari was Deputy Dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and earlier he was Head of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 2005–06, he was Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His highly cited research focuses on financial reporting and valuation, asset allocation, explaining the diversity in international accounting practices, use of employee stock options for compensating executives and accounting for stock options, evaluating investment performance, and corporate uses of derivatives for hedging and speculation. For the past 14 years, Kothari has been serving as an editor of the Journal of Accounting & Economics, a world-renowned academic research journal in accounting. He is an expert on economic policy issues in India, and has written numerous opinion-page editorials in The Economic Times. He served on the board of directors of Vicarious Visions from 1998 to 2004, and he is a senior consultant with Charles River Associates, a business economics and litigation support consulting firm. He has consulted with many large corporations, including leading U.S. and international banks and asset management companies, Australian television broadcast corporations, U.S. steel companies, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Kothari has been the chairman of his undergraduate alma mater alumni association, BITSAA International, for the past five years. Kothari holds a BE in chemical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India; an MBA in accounting and finance from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India; and a PhD in accounting from the University of Iowa.