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	Sunil Dutta Director, Haas School PhD Program Joan and Egon von Kaschnitz Distinguished Professor of Accounting and International Business Haas Accounting Group 510-643-1229 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On duty Office Hours: By appointment, F492 Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BS, Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
MS, Applied Chemistry, University of Minnesota
MBA, Accounting, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
PhD, Business Administration, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Positions Held

At Haas since 1996
2009 - present, Director of the PhD Program
2008 - present, Joan and Egon von Kaschnitz Distinguished Professor of Accounting and International Business, Haas School of Business
2002 - 2008, Joan and Egon von Kaschnitz Distinguished Associate Professor of Accounting and International Business, Haas School of Business
1996 - 2002, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
1994 - 1996, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia

External Service and Assignments

Associate Editor, Management Science
Editorial Boards: The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies
Reviewer: The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, European Journal of Operations Research, California Management Review
Affiliations: American Accounting Association, American Finance Association, The Society for Financial Studies, Canadian Academic Accounting Association

Current Research and Interests

Accounting information, performance measures, and managerial incentive contracts

Selected Papers and Publications

"Hurdle Rates and Project Development Efforts," with Q. Fan. The Accounting Review 84, no. 2 (2009).
"Managerial Expertise, Private Information, and Pay-Performance Sensitivity." Management Science 54, no. 3 (2008).
"Cost Allocation for Capital Budgeting Decisions," with T. Baldenius and S. Reichelstein. The Accounting Review 82, no. 4 (2007).
"Stock Price, Earnings, and Book Value in Managerial Performance Measures," with S. Reichelstein. The Accounting Review 80, no. 4 (2005).
"Leading Indicator Variables, Performance Measurement and Long-Term versus Short-Term Contracts," with S. Reichelstein, Journal of Accounting Research 41, no. 3 (2003).
"Capital Budgeting and Managerial Compensation: Incentive and Retention Effects." The Accounting Review 78, no. 1 (2003).
"Revenue Recognition in a Multiperiod Agency Setting," with Xiao-Jun Zhang. Journal of Accounting Research 40, no. 1 (March 2002).
"Controlling Investment Decisions: Depreciation- and Capital Charges," with Stefan Reichelstein. Review of Accounting Studies 7, no. 1 (2002).

Teaching

Financial Reporting, MBA 202

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award of the 2001 Review of Accounting Studies Conference
Best Paper Award of the 1999 Review of Accounting Studies Conference
Schwabacher Fellowship, 1998-99
Club 6 Member, Haas School of Business, (for teaching excellence, based on student evaluations), 1996-2003
Junior Faculty Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 1996
Research Grant, Canadian Academic Accounting Association

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