Jennifer Blouin, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Professor Blouin is the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management in accounting at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. She studies taxation in many contexts, including capital structure, asset pricing, payout policy and multinational firm behavior. Professor Blouin’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals, including Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, National Tax Journal and the Journal of the American Taxation Association. She is an Editor for the Review of Accounting Studies, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Accounting Research, and serves on the editorial boards of several other leading accounting journals. Professor Blouin has also served as a Wharton Fellow and Penn Fellow.

Professor Blouin teaches taxation to undergraduate, MBA, and PhD students. She has won numerous Wharton teaching awards including the MBA Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award and the Award for Teaching Excellence in both the daytime and executive MBA programs. In 2019, Professor Blouin received the University of Pennsylvania’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. She received her PhD in Accounting from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and her BS from Indiana University – Bloomington. Prior to obtaining her PhD, Professor Blouin was a tax manager with Arthur Andersen LLP.

Teaching Schedule: June 6 ~ June 9, 2025

Faculty Webpage: https://accounting-faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/blouin/

Faculty Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=JL+Blouin&btnG=

 

Hans Christensen, Chookaszian Family Professor of Accounting and David G.Booth Faculty Fellow at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Hans Christensen is the Chookaszian Family Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research focuses on the societal implications of regulation and corporate practices aimed at promoting social responsibility. This includes examining the impact of transparency regulations on healthcare and labor safety, evaluating the effectiveness of supply-chain due diligence regulation in addressing issues like conflict and child labor, and studying the role of corporate sustainability commitments in reducing pollution. In addition to his research, Professor Christensen shares his knowledge by teaching MBA and PhD courses on sustainability related topics at Chicago Booth and in doctoral research seminars at other institutions.

Among others, his work has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies. He earned his doctoral degree from Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom

Teaching Schedule: June 17 ~ June 21, 2025

Faculty Webpage: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/c/hans-b-christensen

Faculty Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YGDFX2gAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Robert Knechel, Distinguished Professor and the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida

W. Robert Knechel is the Distinguished Professor and the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He is currently the Director of the International Accounting and Auditing Center (IAAC). Robert holds an appointment at the University of Auckland as a Professor of Accounting Research. He is on the Board of the Foundation for Audit Research in the Netherlands and is a member of the Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group (SEIAG) of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).He has recently complete a term as the Senior Editor for The Accounting Review. He was honored with the 2015 Outstanding Educator in Auditing Award given by the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association
and has received Honorary Doctorates from BI Oslo (Norway) and Nyenrode University (Netherlands).

Teaching Schedule: June 1 ~ June 4, 2025

Faculty Webpage: https://warrington.ufl.edu/directory/profiles/5296/

Faculty Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NbfjVgIAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Brian Joseph White, Associate Professor of Accounting, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

Brian White is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. His research focuses on behavioral factors that affect judgments and decisions of participants in the financial reporting process. He teaches financial accounting in Cornell’s Executive and Residential MBA programs and a PhD seminar on behavioral research in accounting. His award-winning research has been published in leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. He currently serves as an Editor at Contemporary Accounting Research. Brian has degrees from Georgetown University, the University of Edinburgh, Manchester Business School, and the University of Illinois where he completed his PhD. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he spent ten years as finance director for a privately-held retailer based in Liverpool, England. Prior to joining Johnson at Cornell, Brian was on the faculty at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Teaching Schedule: June 12 ~ June 15, 2025

Faculty Webpage:https://business.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty/bjw235/

Faculty Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TldD3IsAAAAJ&hl=en