Professor Markus Arnold
Director of the Institute for Accounting
University of Bern
Dr Markus Arnold is a Professor for Managerial Accounting and Director of the Institute for Accounting at the University of Bern. He earned his PhD from Clausthal University of Technologyin Germany. Markus's research focuses on Management Accounting, Management Control Systems, Incentive Systems and Performance Evaluation, and CSR Accounting. His current research projects involve target setting, transfer pricing, subjective performance evaluation in teams and the effect of CSR information on investments.
Markus serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Management Accounting Research, Business Research, and Journal of Management Control, and is a member of the AAA Management Accounting Section Publication Committee.
Professor David Brown
Professor of Management Accounting
University of Technology Sydney
David Brown is Professor of Management Accounting at the University of Technology Sydney. His research and teaching is primarily focused on how to design and use management and accounting systems to address behavioral, decision making and coordination problems in organizations. He is best known for his work on management control system packages, some of which is featured in his research paper published in Management Accounting Research (coauthored with Teemu Malmi in 2008) which continues to be highly read and cited. However, David's research interests span environmental sustainability, mental models and decision making, interorganizational research contracting, open strategy and innovation, sustainable agriculture, and management of research performance in universities. He has undertaken a range of projects with CPA Australia, including a joint research project with the Strategic Business Management Centre of Excellence on factors that influence the adoption of Activity-Based Costing & Management in Australian Firms, as well as projects on the current use of the Balanced Scorecard and Predictive Business Analysis in Australia.
Professor Paul Healy
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Dr. Paul M. Healy is the James R. Williston Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the Harvard Business School. His research covers a broad range of topics, including financial analysis, Wall Street research, corruption, governance, mergers and acquisitions, and business ethics. He joined the HBS faculty in 1998, after fourteen years on the faculty at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, where he received awards for teaching excellence in 1991, 1992, and 1997. He received accounting and finance degrees from Victoria University in New Zealand (1976 and 1977) and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (1981).
He has published widely in the leading academic and practitioner journals, has received numerous research awards, and is the co-author of one of the leading financial analysis textbooks. He has taught MBA and executive courses on accounting, financial analysis, corporate boards, and ethical leadership.
Professor Gerhard Speckbacher
Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control
WU Vienna University
Dr Gerhard Speckbacher is a Professor for Strategic Management and Management Control at the Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control in Vienna, Austria. Gerhard's research focuses on Performance Management and Management Control Systems, Management Accounting for Creativity and Innovation, Corporate Strategy and Strategy Implementation, Stakeholder Theory, and Management of Nonprofit Organizations.
Gerhard was the past editor of Management Review Quarterly, where he continues to serves as an editorial board member, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Control.