Partha Mohanram

Partha Mohanram is the John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing and Area Coordinator of Accounting at Rotman. He has published extensively in the areas of financial statement analysis, valuation of growth firms, implied cost of capital and executive compensation. He is a Deputy Editor-in-chief of Contemporary Accounting Research and serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review and Review of Accounting Studies. His research work has won numerous awards including the Haim Falk award from the CAAA (2017) and the Rotman research impact award (2018).

Professor Mohanram teaches advanced electives on business analysis and valuation. He joined Rotman after serving on the faculty of Columbia and New York University. He obtained his PhD from Harvard, MBA from IIM – Ahmedabad, and B.Tech from IIT-Madras.

Professor Mohanram is the director of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto

Research and Teaching Interests

• Financial Accounting with an emphasis on Valuation, Financial Statement Analysis, Cost of Capital, Earnings Management, Corporate Disclosure and Executive Compensation

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Business Economics (1999), Harvard University
• M.B.A (1992), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. Major: Finance and Operations
• B.Tech. (1990), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. Major: Computer Science and Engineering

Honors and Awards

• 2011-2018 Teaching Award, Rotman School of Management
• 2017 Haim Falk Award, CAAA
• 2018 Research Impact Award, Rotman School of Management

Academic Positions

• 2018 to Date
  John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing, Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto

• 2015-2018
  CPA Ontario Professor of Accouting, Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto

• 2010-2015
  CGA Ontario Professor of Accounting, Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto

• 2006-2010
  Phillip H. Geier Associate Professor, Columbia Business School

• 2003-2006
  Assistant Profesor, Columbia Business School

• 1998-2003
  Assistant Professor, Stern School of Business - New York University