Richard Frankel

Research Interests:

Accounting-based valuation and voluntary disclosure

Awards/Honors:

• American Accounting Association, Notable Contribution Award (with Charles Lee), 2003
• M.B.A. Student Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Michigan, 1997
• First Place Award, I/B/E/S 25th Anniversary Global Expectation Research Competition, 1996
• First Place Award, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Earnings Expectation Research Competition, 1995
• Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q-group) Grant,, 1995
• Sloan School Excellence in Teaching Award, 2000-2001
• Sloan School Teacher of the Year, 2004-2005 and 2001-2002

Professor Frankel has taught at Olin since 2005. Prior to that, he was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Michigan. At Michigan and MIT, he received the MBA Student Awards for Teaching Excellence. His principal teaching interest is financial accounting and reporting. His research focuses on valuation using accounting numbers and on corporate managers'' use of conference calls, earnings forecasts, and pro-forma earnings.