Joseph Weber
Professor of Accounting at Sloan School of Management
Schools
- Sloan School of Management
Links
Biography
Joseph Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market—performance pricing—allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract. Weber’s research has recently appeared in Accounting Research. When not conducting research, he teaches the Managerial Accounting elective, which is available to first- and second-year MBA students at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to entering academia, Weber worked for PriceWaterhouse and AXA Financial.
Sloan School of Management
Joseph Weber is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management and a Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market—performance pricing—allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract. Weber’s research has recently appeared in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. When not conducting research, Weber teaches the core financial accounting class to first-year MBA students at MIT Sloan. Prior to entering academia, he worked for Price Waterhouse and AXA Financial.
Weber holds a BSB in accounting from Bucknell University and a PhD in accounting from Pennsylvania State University.
Read about executive education
Other experts
Elisabet Rutström
Eva Elisabet Rutström is a Swedish born experimental economist, and an accomplished field researcher in individual decision making and interactive group behaviors. Over the last 40 years she has worked as an instructor and researcher at universities in Canada, the United States, and Sweden. She c...
Katie Votolato
Areas of Expertise Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Organization Change, Operations Strategy & Management, Supply Chain Management, People Development, Action Work Outs/ Kaizen Events Academic Degrees MBA, Indiana University BS, Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Tec...
Looking for an expert?
Contact us and we'll find the best option for you.