About the Author
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Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of
Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, Faculty
Chair of the Harvard University Innovation Labs, and Senior
Associate Dean for University Affairs. He previously served as
Senior Associate Dean from 2000 to 2010. A graduate with
distinction from the University of Bombay, he received gold
medals upon graduation from the Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of
India. A chartered accountant, he holds two master’s degrees and
a PhD from Stanford University.
Datar has published his research in leading accounting,
marketing, and operations management journals, including The
Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of
Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Accounting and
Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and Management
Science. He has served as an associate editor and on the
editorial board of several journals and has presented his
research to corporate executives and academic audiences in North
America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. He
is a coauthor of three other books: Managerial Accounting: Making
Decisions and Motivating Performance, Rethinking the MBA:
Business Education at a Crossroads, and Rethinking Graduate
Management Education in Latin America.
Cited by his students as a dedicated and innovative teacher,
Datar received the George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the
Classroom at Carnegie Mellon University and the Distinguished
Teaching Award at Stanford University.
Datar is a member of the board of directors of Novartis A.G.,
ICF International, T-Mobile US, and Stryker Corporation, and
Senior Strategic Advisor to HCL Technologies. He has worked with
many organizations, including Apple Computer, Boeing, DuPont,
Ford, General Motors, Morgan Stanley, Co, Visa, and the
World Bank. He is a member of the American Accounting Association
and the Institute of Management Accountants.
Madhav V. Rajan is the Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of
Accounting at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
He is also Professor of Law (by courtesy) at Stanford Law School.
From 2010 to 2016, he was Senior Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs and head of the MBA program at the Stanford GSB.
Rajan received his undergraduate degree in commerce from the
University of Madras, India, and his MS in accounting, MBA, and
PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. In 1990, his
dissertation won the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in
Economic Theory.
Rajan’s primary area of research interest is the economics-based
analysis of management accounting issues, especially as they
relate to internal control, capital budgeting, quality
management, supply chain and performance systems in firms. He has
published his research in a variety of leading journals,
including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and
Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science,
and Review of Financial Studies. In 2004, he received the Notable
Contribution to Management Accounting Literature award. He is a
coauthor of Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and
Motivating Performance.
Rajan has served as the Departmental Editor for Accounting at
Management Science as well as associate editor for both the
accounting and operations areas. From 2002 to 2008, Rajan served
as an editor of The Accounting Review. Rajan has twice been a
plenary speaker at the AAA Management Accounting Conference.
Rajan has received several teaching honors at Wharton and
Stanford, including the David W. Hauck Award, the highest
undergraduate teaching award at Wharton. He teaches in the
ship Stanford Executive Program and is co-director of Finance
and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive.He has participated
in custom programs for many companies, including Genentech,
Hewlett-Packard, and nVidia, and is faculty director for the
Infosys Global Leadership Program.
Rajan is a director of Cavium, Inc. and iShares, Inc., a trustee
of the iShares Trust, and a member of the C.M. Capital Investment
Advisory Board.
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