Sugata Roychowdhury

Professor Sugata Roychowdhury’s research focuses on the influence of managers’ incentives on their reporting and disclosure choices, as well as operational and investment decisions. His most recent research focuses on the interaction between voluntary and mandatory disclosures, the implications of capital market developments, regulatory guidelines and corporate courts for managers’ reporting choices, and the real consequences of these choices. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Journal of Accounting Research (JAR), The Accounting Review (TAR) and the Review of Accounting Studies (RAS).

Professor Roychowdhury is on the editorial review board of TAR and JAE, and an Associate Editor at JAR. He joined Kellogg in the summer of 2020, where he is Director of Graduate Studies for Accounting Information and Management (AIM). Over his career, he has taught "Doctoral Seminar in Empirical Financial Accounting" to Ph.D. students, “Financial Accounting” to MBA students, "Management Accounting" to undergraduate students and Executive MBAs, and “Cost Accounting” to Masters-of-Science students. At Kellogg, Professor Roychowdhury is Director of Graduate Studies in AIM and has taught "Accounting for Planning and Control" to Executive MBA students. Prior to Kellogg he was at Boston College, where he was the director of the PhD program and the Managerial Accounting Core Co-ordinator. Prior to joining Boston College, he spent seven years at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where he was the Financial Accounting Core Co-ordinator, and held the Theodore T. Miller (1922) Career Development Chair for research. He was on the Dean’s “Teaching Star” list at Boston College, and a multiple recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award at MIT Sloan.

Education

• PhD, 2004, Business Administration (Accounting), University of Rochester
• MS, 2001, Accounting & Finance, Univeristy of Rochester
• MBA, 1996, Finance, International Management Institute, New Delhi, India
• Bachelor of Technology, Instrumentation & Control, 1994, Technology, Instrumentation & Control, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, India

Academic Positions

• Professor, Accounting Information & Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2020-present
• Professor, Accounting, Boston College, 2016-2020
• Associate Professor, Accounting, Boston College, 2010-2016
• Associate Professor, Accounting, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-2010
• Assistant Professor, Accounting, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-2008

Awards

• Best Paper Award, Annual Review of Accounting Studies conference
• Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature, American Accounting Association