Michelle L. Hanlon

Michelle L. Hanlon is the Howard W. Johnson Professor and Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has taught undergraduates, MBA students, Executive MBA students, and Masters of Finance students. She is the winner of the 2021 Outstanding MBA Teacher Award, the 2020 MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Award, and the 2013 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT Sloan.

Professor Hanlon’s research focuses primarily on the intersection of financial accounting and taxation. She has published research studies in all of the top accounting and finance journals and the leading field journals in taxation in accounting and economics. She has won many awards for her research including the Distinguished Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association, being named a Presidential Scholar by the American Accounting Association, and many others.

Professor Hanlon has served on several editorial boards and served as one of the senior editors at the Journal of Accounting and Economics for over 15 years. Professor Hanlon is a co-author on two other textbooks: Financial Accounting, entering its eighth edition, and Intermediate Accounting, entering its fourth edition. She has testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and twice to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means about tax and accounting issues. She served as a U.S. delegate to the American-Swiss Young Leaders Conference in 2010 and worked as an Academic Fellow at the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee in 2015. She served on the Tax Expenditure Commission for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and serves on the academic advisory board to the International Tax Policy Forum, Washington, DC.

She earned her doctorate degree at the University of Washington. Prior to joining MIT, she was a faculty member at the University of Michigan. She worked at KPMG prior to earning her PhD.

Robert Magee

Robert Magee is the Keith I. DeLashmutt Professor of Accounting Information and Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Prior to joining the Kellogg faculty in 1976, he was a faculty member at the University of Chicago′s Graduate School of Business. For academic year 1980-81, he was a visiting faculty member at IMEDE (now IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Professor Magee′s research focuses on the use of accounting information to facilitate decision-making and control within organizations. He has published articles in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and a variety of other journals. He is the author of Advanced Managerial Accounting and co-author (with Thomas R. Dyckman and David H. Downes) of Efficient Capital Markets and Accounting: A Critical Analysis. The latter book received the Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award from the AICPA in 1978.

Professor Magee has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. From 1994-96, he served as Editor of The Accounting Review, the quarterly research journal of the American Accounting Association. He received the American Accounting Association′s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 1999 and the Illinois CPA Society Outstanding Educator Award in 2000.

Professor Magee teaches financial accounting to MBA and Executive MBA students. He has received several teaching awards at the Kellogg School, including the Alumni Choice Outstanding Professor Award in 2003.

Glenn Pfeiffer

Glenn Pfeiffer is Professor of Accounting at the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University after he earned a bachelor′s degree from Hope College. Prior to joining the faculty at the Argyros School, he held appointments at the University of Washington, Cornell University, the University of Chicago, the University of Arizona, and San Diego State University.

Professor Pfeiffer’s research focuses on financial reporting and capital markets. He has investigated issues relating to lease accounting, LIFO inventory liquidation, earnings per share, employee stock options, corporate reorganization, and technology investments. He has published articles in The Accounting Review, the Financial Analysts Journal, the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, the Journal of Applied Business Research, the Journal of High Technology Management Research, the Journal of Accounting Education, and several other academic journals. In addition, he has published numerous case studies in financial accounting and reporting.

Professor Pfeiffer teaches financial accounting and financial analysis to undergraduate, MBA, and Executive students. He has also taught managerial accounting for MBAs. He has won several teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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