Sunil Dutta

Education

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

Positions Held

At Haas since 1996

• 2009 – 2013, 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

• Performance measures, incentive contracts, and accounting information.
• Accounting information, cost of capital, and equity valuation.

Selected Papers and Publications

• “Equilibrium Earnings Management and Managerial Compensation in a Multi-period Agency Setting” with Q. Fan.  Review of Accounting Studies, 2014.
• “Incentives for Innovation and Centralized versus Delegated Capital Budgeting” with Q. Fan. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 53 (3), 2012.
• “Decentralized Capacity management and Internal Pricing,” with S. Reichelstein. Review of Accounting Studies 15 no. 3 (2010).
• “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).

Teaching

• Financial Accounting, MBA 202
• Analytical Research in Accounting, PHDBA 229C.

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)
• Junior Faculty Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 1996
• Research Grant, Canadian Academic Accounting Association