Education

PhD in Business Administration, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, June 2009

MBA with Distinction, Harvard Business School, June 2002

Bachelor of Laws (equivalent to JD), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, May 1995

Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, April 1995

Publications

Correcting for Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Dependence in Accounting Research (with Gaizka Ormazabal and Daniel J. Taylor)
The Accounting Review, forthcoming

Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings? (with Robert Daines and David F. Larcker)
Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming
Press coverage in Fortune, Pension and Investments, and Reuters.

Working papers

Why Do Some Firms' Consensus Analyst Earnings Forecasts Exclude Stock-Based Compensation Expense? (with Mary E. Barth and Daniel J. Taylor)

Earnings Volatility and the Cross-Section of Returns (with Daniel J. Taylor)

Book chapters and papers in non-refereed journals

Capital Budgeting: The Role of Cost Allocations, Operations Research Proceedings 2006, March 2007 (with Stefan Reichelstein)

EVA in E&P: The Case of Nuevo Energy, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Winter 2001 (with J. L. McCormack)

Profitability: Theory and Measurement, University of Melbourne Working Paper,
later Chapter 3 of "How Big Business Performs" (1999), Allen & Unwin: St Leonards, NSW, Australia (with Stuart S. Kells)

Teaching

I will be teaching Accounting For Decision Making (ACCT-430-0) in the Fall and Winter quarters.

Course assistant (prepared and conducted review sessions), MBA managerial accounting, 2007 & 2008
Professors Stefan Reichelstein and Madhav Rajan

Course assistant (prepared and conducted review sessions), MBA financial accounting, 2005 & 2006
Professors Ron Kasznik, Ilan Guttman, Yonca Ertimur, Mark Soliman

Professional experience

Analyst, Global Valuation and Accounting Team, Equity Research, Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., New York, January–September 2004

Senior Financial Analyst, Treasurer's Office, General Motors Corporation, New York, August 2002–December 2003

Associate – EVA (Economic Value Added) Implementation and Corporate Finance Stern Stewart & Company, New York, USA & Sydney, Australia, 1997–2000

Business Analyst, Strategic Services, Andersen Consulting, Sydney, Australia, 1995–1996

Conferences attended

FARS Mid-year Meeting and Doctoral Consortium, 2009 (presenter)

American Accounting Association, Annual Meeting, 2008 (presenter and discussant)

Penn/NYU Conference On Law And Finance, 2008 (co-presenter)

FARS Mid-year Meeting and Doctoral Consortium, 2008

Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference, 2007

AAA Doctoral Consortium, 2007

Pac-10 Doctoral Consortium, USC, 2007

Service

Referee for AAA Annual Meeting (2008, five papers) and FARS Mid-year Conference (2009, five papers)