ASIS MARTINEZ-JEREZ is an experienced professor with extensive connections to industry who has utilized his international experience and his wide network in Spain, Latin America, and the US to develop deep expertise in how to design organizations, both private and public, for excellent performance in global markets with customer centered strategies.

Dr. Martínez-Jerez joined the Cornell University Nolan School of Hotel Administration at the SC Johnson College of Business in 2020. He is tasked with the development of a center of competence in strategy implementation and management control for the hospitality and healthcare industries. As an academic, Dr. Martínez-Jerez brings his vast experience in researching and teaching strategy implementation, performance measurement, corporate governance, and management control. He has lectured undergraduate and MBA students as well as led executive education programs at Harvard Business School and the University of Notre Dame.

Prior to academia, Dr. Martinez-Jerez was an engagement manager at McKinsey and Company where he served clients in Europe and Latin America. He was instrumental in the restructuring and organizational design of business and family offices, defining corporate strategy, and building organizations that excelled in strategic vision, talent management, strategy implementation, risk management, and financial operations. He managed multinational teams serving companies and groups in financial services, telecommunications, and technology industries.

In addition, Dr. Martínez-Jerez is currently the fractional CFO and member of the board of directors at Asclepii, a promising startup in the healthcare sector, a member of the advisory board of GustoMarket, a digital marketplace for food and beverage companies, and a member of the advisory board of the Bullard family. Formerly, he was a director and member of the Talent Committee at Bullard, a safety products company servicing emergency responders and industrial customers in the US and international markets, and a director of Satec, a mid-size IT services company headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and with business operations in Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He is passionate about collaborating with boards and management teams across industries to help achieve long-term success. 

Dr. Martínez-Jerez holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA and a PhD from Harvard University, and bachelor degrees in Law and Economics from Pontifical University Comillas-ICADE, Madrid. Additionally, Dr. Martínez-Jerez is active with several nonprofit associations including the American Accounting Association, The Cornell Latinos in Business Club and The Cornell Latin Living Center.

Jasmijn Bol was born and raised in The Netherlands where she finished her Master of Science in International Business from Maastricht University in 2002. In 2007 she earned a PhD in Management from IESE Business School, University of Navarra (Spain) with highest honor. During her PhD program she spent one year at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania as a visiting PhD student. In 2007 Bol was appointed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor of accountancy. She joined the faculty of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University as an associate professor with tenure in 2012.

Professor Bol’s research focuses on the role of managerial discretion in compensation contracting. Her research covers a broad range of issues. Specifically, she examines all stages of the compensation contracting process (design, management and performance evaluation) and studies the role of discretion in both short-term and long-term incentive provision. Some of her research takes a dynamic approach and she draws on a variety of theories (i.e., economic theory, psychology, sociology), and uses various research methods (i.e., field, experimental, archival, and survey).

Professor Bol has authored numerous articles that have appeared in prestigious scholarly journals including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research and Accounting, Organizations & Society. Her research has significantly impacted the Accounting and Business community. She is ranked 5^th in the Managerial Accounting Research category based on publication in top journals. Her research has also been highly cited, she is ranked 9^th in the category Managerial Experimental Accounting Research. Professor Bol has presented her research at over 45 national and international academic institutions and conferences, including her service as keynote speaker and as panelist. Professor Bol has received several awards for her research, among which the 2015 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award presented by the American Accounting Association and her recognition as the Best Early-Career Researcher in Management Accounting, also awarded by the American Accounting Association.

Professor Bol has taught several managerial accounting courses and developed a course in control systems for which she has created a variety of teaching materials, among them a Harvard Business School Case. Professor Bol has been highly recognized for teaching by her students and colleagues as she has received an Award for Excellence in Accountancy Education from the Accountancy Department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition, Professor Bol received the Alumni Association Excellence-in-Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching from the College of Business of the University of Illinois.

Dennis W. Campbell is a Professor in the Accounting & Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Campbell's research, teaching, and case writing focus on the design of performance measurement and management control systems, with a particular focus on identifying design choices that enable more effective interactions between organizations and their customers. He has studied these issues extensively in both the U.S. and international services sectors and has published numerous case studies across a variety of related industries including retail, hospitality, and financial services. His research has been published in leading academic journals including Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Management Science. Professor Campbell received his doctorate from Harvard Business School and his bachelors degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Redlands (Redlands, CA). Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, he worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. on research and policy related to the structure, conduct, and performance of U.S. banking institutions and markets. He is currently serving on the board of the Harvard University Employees Credit Union and is a research fellow at the Filene Research Institute. He enjoys living in Sudbury, MA with his wife, son, daughter, and two dogs.

Laura B. Cardinal is Professor of Strategic Management at the C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. Previously, she was a faculty member at Tulane University where she served as the Exxon Professor of Strategy. Her areas of expertise include managing innovation and R&D capabilities and understanding the evolution and adaptation of control systems in founding firms. She has received awards for both research and teaching in these areas. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a National Science Foundation grant recipient. Her book, Organizational Control (with Sitkin and Bijlsma-Frankema), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Professor Cardinal currently serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. She previously served as the Chair for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group and Track Chair for the Singapore Conference for the Strategic Management Society, and as the Chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division at the Academy of Management.

Jongwoon (Willie) Choi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and holds the David J. Lesar Professorship in Business. His teaching and research interests lie in management accounting.

Willie has received several awards for his teaching and research, including the Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award and the Best Early-Career Researcher in Management Accounting Award. In 2016, Poets and Quants also recognized Willie in its annual list of “40 under 40 Most Outstanding Business Professors.” He is currently an editor at The Accounting Review, and serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals. He previously served as an editor at the Journal of Management Accounting Research. He also recently completed a term as President of the American Accounting Association’s Management Accounting Section.

Willie earned his BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis, his MAcc from Ohio State University, and his PhD from Emory University.

Tony Davila has a dual appointment as professor of Entrepreneurship and professor of Accounting and Control at IESE Business School. He is the Alcatel Lucent Chair of Technology Management. He has recently been Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School during 2013 and 2014 teaching in the MBA core curriculum. Before coming to IESE, he was a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University after receiving his doctorate from the Harvard Business School.

He teaches courses in innovation management, entrepreneurship, management accounting and control, and sports management at the master, doctoral, and executive education levels. He has taught innovation and entrepreneurship around the world including Oxford University in England, HEC Lausanne in Switzerland, and CEIBS in China.

He has recently published The Innovation Paradox: How Good Business Kill Breakthroughs and How They Can Change, the book pushes forward some of the ideas outlined in his previous book Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It.

In addition, he has published Malea Fashion District: How Successful Managers Use Financial Information to Grow Organizations, a book that makes management accounting ideas relevant to anybody involved in organizations. He has also edited The Creative Enterprise.

His work has been published in journals such as Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, or Review of Accounting Studies.

He has received IESE’s research award three times and his dissertation was distinguished by the American Accounting Association. His latest article in California Management Review received the Accenture Best Paper Award, 2011. The Spanish government awarded him the Ramon y Cajal scholarship that recognizes his work. He was also finalist for the McKinsey Best Paper Award from the Strategic Management Society.

In addition to his research and teaching work, Tony is a prolific writer of teaching cases. He also works extensively with companies from startups, some of them started by some of his students, to large multinationals.

Henri Dekker is Professor of Management Control at the Department of Accounting at VU University Amsterdam, and holds a position of Professorial Fellow at the Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Since earning his PhD in 2003 at VU University Amsterdam, Henri’s research has focused on the themes of management accounting in interfirm relationships, and firms’ use of performance measurement, target setting and incentives. His work has been published in various leading journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Science, and Organization Science. Henri’s research has been recognized by several awards, including the AAA Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award, the AAA Best Early Career in Management Accounting Award and the AAA Greatest Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award. Henri currently is Associate Editor at the European Accounting Review and serves on the editorial boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and Management Accounting Research.

Annie has a Ph.D. in accounting from Michigan State University, an M.S. from George Mason University and a B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to her doctoral program, she was the manager of corporate financial reporting and a senior internal auditor for Gannett Co., Inc. in Washington, DC; an analyst for The Hearst Corporation in New York; and an auditor with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells in New York. Annie was also on the faculties at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and The American University.

Annie’s research and her courses examine how performance measurement and control systems can be designed to influence and facilitate effective and efficient decision-making within organizations. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, and the Journal of Management Accounting Research, as well as in the Journal of Financial Economics and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. She has also published practitioner summaries of her research for Strategic Finance, FM / Financial Management, and the Journal of Financial Planning. She has won several awards for her research and her teaching, including in 2022 the AAA Management Accounting Section Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award and the Miami University Associated Student Government Outstanding Professor Award.

Annie serves as an associate editor at Management Accounting Research and on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research, and is a former associate editor of Behavioral Research in Accounting. Annie is the Vice President of Finance for the American Accounting Association (AAA) and is also involved in the AAA Management Accounting Section. She is co-chair of the AAA Publications Processes Task Force and chair of the Farmer School’s Societal Impact Committee and Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee; and serves on the CIMA Research Board and the Michigan State University Department of Accounting and Information Systems External Advisory Board.

Annie is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant, and is a member of several accounting and neuroscience academic and practitioner associations. She is also Executive Board Vice-President of the Butler County, Ohio Progressive Political Action Committee.

Professor Ittner’s research focuses on the design, implementation, and performance consequences of performance measurement, cost management, and enterprise risk management systems. His articles have been published in the Harvard Business Review and leading academic accounting, marketing, and operations management journals. He is an editor of The Accounting Review, and has served as senior editor at Production and Operations Management and associate editor for Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Science, and several other academic journals. His work on the association between customer satisfaction measures and financial performance received the American Accounting Association’s Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award.

Professor Ittner teaches the undergraduate management accounting core course, an MBA cost management elective, and executive education sessions on cost accounting and marketing metrics. In addition, he runs management accounting doctoral courses for students from throughout the United States and Europe. He is the recipient of several MBA teaching awards.

Professor Ittner received his BS from California State University, Long Beach, his MBA from UCLA, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University.

Eva Labro is the Michael W. Haley Distinguished Professor of Management Accounting and Area Chair of Accounting at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Dr. Labro is an award-winning teacher and researcher. She received the 2021 and 2011 Notable Contributions to the Management Accounting Literature Awards, 2022 Weatherspoon Award for Distinguished Research, 2019 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in MBA Teaching, 2018 Bullard Award for Research Impact, 2017 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in PhD Teaching, 2016 Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award at UNC Kenan-Flagler, 2007 Best Management Accounting Paper Award at the American Accounting Association conference, and 2006 London School of Economics Teaching Prize. She received the Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award three times – in 2011, 2013 and 2014 – from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Dr. Labro’s work has received research funding from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the U.K. and the Institute of Management Accountants in the U.S.

She has published extensively in top journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management.

She is an editor at The Accounting Review, an associate editor at Journal of Accounting Research, and a senior editor at Production and Operations Management (POM) for its POM-Accounting Interface. She is the immediate-past senior editor at the Journal of Management Accounting Research.  She serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Accounting Research,  European Accounting Review and Management Accounting Research.

At Kenan-Flagler, she teaches or has taught the core Strategic Cost Analysis and Performance Management course in both the full-time MBA program as well as the Executive MBA programs, as well as an elective on Financial Management in Healthcare and a PhD course in Managerial Accounting Research.

A dual American-Belgian national, she received her PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. She also studied in Denmark and the U.K. She received a doctoral fellowship from the Intercollegiate Centre for Management Studies in Brussels. She obtained her masters in commercial and business economics.

Joan Luft is Eli Broad Professor of Accounting at the Eli Broad School of Business, Michigan State University. Her research, which combines insights from economics and psychology to explain the design and use of management accounting, has been published in a variety of major international journals. She was co-recipient of the AICPA-AAA Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award in 1996 as well as recipient of the AAA Management Accounting Section Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature in 1999 and the Notable Lifetime Contribution in Behavioral Accounting Literature Award in 2012. She has served as Associate Editor of The Accounting Review and Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research, and is currently Associate Editor of Accounting Horizons, as well as a member of the editorial boards of several journals.

Melissa Martin joined the faculty of the University of Illinois – Chicago in fall 2015.  Prior to her employment with UIC, she served on faculty at both Rice University and Arizona State University. Melissa’s research interests focus on executive compensation and control systems using both field and archival data. Melissa serves as an associate editor for the European Accounting Review and as an editorial board member of The Accounting Review and The Journal of Management Accounting Research. She has published her work in Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations, & Society, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research, among others. She received her PhD in business from the University of Southern California and also attended Texas A&M University where she received a MS in finance and a BBA in accounting. Melissa has taught both MBA and undergraduate students in both core managerial accounting as well as control systems electives in addition to teaching executive education. Prior to her academic career, Melissa worked with Deloitte & Touche and pursued entrepreneurial endeavors.

Michal Matějka is the Harvey and Missy Jabara Family Accounting Professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from Tilburg University and prior to joining ASU held positions at the University of Michigan and University of Southern California.

His research interests are in the area of performance measurement, target setting, and incentive compensation. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies. He is the senior editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research, an Associate Editor at Management Science and on the editorial board of several leading accounting journals. His research has been recognized by the 2017 Notable Contributions to Management Accounting Literature Award.

Kenneth A. Merchant is the Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the University of Southern California. He has published 10 books and numerous articles in major academic and practitioner journals. He has won many awards, including an outstanding service award and four notable contributions awards from the American Accounting Association, two for lifetime contributions to the fields of management accounting and behavioral accounting. He is currently serving as editor of The Accounting Review and on the editorial review boards of 10 other journals.

Since working as a shift manager and subsequently completing his graduate studies, Dr. Miller has taught full-time at Baylor University and Wake Forest University. Recently, he joined the faculty at the University of Houston. At Baylor, Dr. Miller served as Director of the Center for Executive Education. At Wake Forest, he served as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and as Academic Director for the Executive MBA Program. Dr. Miller is an active member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. Awards and honors include: Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Baylor University); Best Research Award (Academy of Management Review); and teaching awards from Wake Forest University, the University of Houston, and Duke University (he has been a guest instructor at Duke). Dr. Miller has worked with a number of managers and executives. Through management development programs, he has contributed to the advancement of individuals from such organizations as ABB, Bank of America, Krispy Kreme, La Farge, Red Hat, State Farm Insurance, and the United States Postal Service. His focus has been change leadership, strategic visioning, and high-involvement approaches to managing people. Dr. Miller’s published research focuses on the functioning of executive teams, the design of organizational structures and management systems, and the design of strategic decision processes. His work has appeared in Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Frank Moers is Professor of Management Accounting & Control and Research Director of the Maastricht Accounting, Auditing, and Information Management Research Center (MARC). Frank holds a M.Sc. (Economics and Business Administration) and a Ph.D., which he received from Maastricht University in respectively 1996 and 2001. He was a Visiting Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a Full Professor at Maastricht University. His research interests cover areas such as performance measurement, corporate governance, organizational design, contract theory, implicit incentives, and internal capital markets. He has published in top academic journals, such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, and The Accounting Review, and was awarded with multiple best paper awards and dissertation (supervision) awards.

George Serafeim is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses in the MBA, executive education and doctoral programs, and is currently teaching the elective course “Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems” in the MBA curriculum, which received the Ideas Worth Teaching Award from the Aspen Institute. He has presented his research in over 60 countries around the world and is one of the most popular business authors, according to rankings of the Social Science Research Network.

Mike Shields is the Schaberg Endowed Chair in Accounting at Michigan State University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978 and an honorary doctoral degree from the Turku School of Economics (Finland) in 2000. In 2006 Mike received the Lee Brummet Distinguished Award for Educators from the Institute for Management Accountants. In 2008 Mike received two awards from the American Accounting Association: Notable Contributions to the Management Accounting Literature Award and Notable (Lifetime) Contribution in Behavioral Accounting Literature. His teaching interests are cost and managerial accounting, and his research uses psychology theories and research methods to study budgeting, performance measurement, performance evaluation, and incentives. Mike has published over 60 articles, including articles in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. Mike is an editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society and was the editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. He was President of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, and is a co-organizer of the annual Global Management Accounting Research Symposium (GMARS). Mike is a director of the Foundation for Applied Research of the Institute of Management Accountants and a member of the Research Board of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Sim Sitkin is Professor of Management, Founding Faculty Director of the Center on Leadership and Ethics, and Director of the Behavioral Science and Policy Center at Duke University. Previously at Duke, he served as Area Head for the Management and Organizations Department, Faculty Director of Fuqua’s Health Sector Management Program, and Academic Director at Duke Corporate Education. Professor Sitkin’s research focuses on leadership and control systems, and their influence on how organizations and their members become more or less capable of change and innovation. He is widely known for his research on the effect of formal and informal organizational control systems and leadership on risk taking, accountability, trust, learning, M&A processes, and innovation.  His most recent book is Organizational Control (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2010.   He is Founding Editor of Behavioral Science and Policy, Consulting Editor of Science You Can Use, Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Trust Research, having previously served as Senior Editor of Organization Science and Associate Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Wim A. Van der Stede is the CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management at the London School of Economics. He has published in several leading academic and practitioner journals in the fields of accounting and management and is a co-author of a leading textbook on management control systems. Wim has won several awards, including the AAA Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award. Finally, Wim has contributed his share of service to the academic and professional accounting profession, such as by being the President of the AAA Management Accounting Section and as Chair of the EAA Publications Committee; he is also on the editorial board of several journals.

Laura Wang is an Associate Professor of Accounting and the Virginia Roedgers Fellow. Her research delves into the impact of management control systems on employee behavior and organizational outcomes, taking into account persistent differences among organizational actors in abilities, personality traits, and values. Laura has published numerous research articles in prestigious journals including Management Science, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations, and Society. She has received several awards for her research, including the Best Early Career Researcher in Management Accounting Award and the Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award.

Sally K. Widener is a Professor of Accounting at Clemson University. She earned her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999. Prior to joining Clemson University in 2013, Sally was on the faculty at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University (2001 - 2013) and at Colorado State University (1999 – 2001), and she has held a continuing position as visiting professor at Nyenrode Business Universiteit in The Netherlands since 2009. Sally’s research investigates how the design and use of management control systems affects employee behaviors. She has published in leading academic journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Operations Management. She is an editor at The Journal of Management Accounting Research and an associate editor at The European Accounting Review. She received the David Solomons Prize from Management Accounting Research for the best paper published in 2006 and has been awarded numerous teaching awards. Prior to earning her Ph.D. she was a senior auditor with Price Waterhouse and worked in various internal audit and controllership positions with a Fortune 500 company. She is a Certified Public Accountant (state of Texas) and a Certified Internal Auditor.

Michael Williamson is an Associate Professor of Accounting and an Ernst and Young faculty fellow. Michael’s research explores the impact of performance evaluation and reward system design on employee productivity, risk taking, creativity, and other innovative activities. Michael has published numerous research articles in outlets such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations, and Society. Michael has received numerous awards for his research including several conference best paper awards and the Best Early Career Researcher in Management Accounting Award.