Rahul Vishishtha

Professor Vashishtha is an Associate Professor in the Accounting area. He received his PhD in Accounting from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 and has been on the Fuqua faculty since graduation. Professor Vashishtha’s research focuses on the determinants of disclosure and its economic consequences. His recent work examines how mandated disclosure of public information affects corporate investment choices. He teaches financial accounting in the Daytime MBA program.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
  Ph.D. Accounting, 2012
• Indian School of Business
  Post-graduate Program in Management, 2004
  Dual concentrations in Finance and Marketing
• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, 2000

Research Interests:

• Determinants of disclosure and its economic consequences
• Debt contracting
• Executive compensation
• Corporate governance

Academic Expirience

Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business

• Assistant professor of Accounting, July, 2012 – June, 2016
• Associate professor of Accounting, July, 2016 – Present

Teaching

Duke University:

• Financial Statement Analysis, Daytime MBA, 2020 –
• Introductory Financial Accounting, Daytime MBA Core Course, 2013-2020
• Introductory Financial Accounting, Weekend Executive MBA Core Course, 2012

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania:

• Introductory Financial Accounting, undergraduate, Summer 2010

Honors And Awards

• Excellence in Refereeing Award, Journal of Accounting Research, 2020
• Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Accounting Review, 2020
• Best Paper Award, Indian School of Business Summer Conference, 2016
• Finalist, Best Paper Award, FARS Midyear Meeting, 2015
• Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2010
• The Wharton School Fellowship for Doctoral Studies, 2007 – 2012
• The Indian School of Business Dean's List, 2004
• Graduate Student Board Scholarship, Indian School of Business, 2004
• Best B.Tech. Project, IIT, Kanpur, 2000
• Duncan’s Award for Best Project in Chemical Engineering, 2000