> Brian Bushee, PhD Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor of Accounting, Senior Vice Dean of Teaching and Learning, The Wharton SchoolResearch Interests:Corporate disclosure, institutional investors, stock market anomalies About Brian Brian J. Bushee is the Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor of Accounting and senior vice dean of teaching and learning at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Wharton in 2000, he was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago. He has also worked as a senior credit analyst for CoreStates Financial Corp. and as a national office researcher for Coopers and Lybrand LLP. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and AB from Duke University. Professor Bushee's research focuses on the impact of information intermediaries — such as institutional investors, sell-side analysts, and the business press — on corporate disclosure decisions and on the stock market pricing of information. His articles have appeared in top-tier academic journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and The Accounting Review, as well as in practitioner journals such as Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and Investor Relations Quarterly. His dissertation won the American Accounting Association’s Competitive Manuscript Award. He has served as an Accounting Department editor at Management Science and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, and Review of Accounting Studies. Professor Bushee teaches an MBA elective called Financial Disclosure Analytics and offers an introductory financial accounting course on Coursera taken by over 800,000 students worldwide. He has won the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for exemplary teaching at Wharton. He has served as the president of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and has served on the AAA Council. Read full faculty bio on Wharton websiteExecutive Education Programs TaughtAdvanced Management ProgramWharton’s flagship leadership program is a transformational and immersive program for senior executives who are at the peak of their careers. This intellectually rigorous and highly experiential program will define you as a leader and strengthen your strategic prowess. Upon completion, you will be granted highly sought-after Wharton alumni status. Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial ManagerLearn how to use financial data to make more-informed business decisions and to evaluate your firm’s performance. Examine core concepts of finance and accounting in a straightforward, easy-to-grasp manner.
