PhD
Accounting
Students in MIT Sloan’s Accounting research group are encouraged to transcend traditional accounting boundaries by integrating comprehensive knowledge of economics and finance into their studies on contemporary financial reporting, disclosure, and contractual issues. The group’s rigorous curriculum, which includes seminars in accounting and finance, equips students with the economic acumen akin to that of MIT Sloan’s Finance PhD candidates. Leveraging the expertise of distinguished faculty members like Michelle Hanlon, whose research focuses on taxation and its intersection with financial accounting, S.P. Kothari, known for his contributions to finance and accounting, and Andrew Sutherland, who explores regulatory impacts on audit markets, students engage with cutting-edge research that is highly relevant to academics, practitioners, and standard setters.
Research from Accounting Faculty
How to boost your organization’s AI maturity level
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New research highlights four areas leaders must address as they embed AI across their business.
Over 1,000 MIT Students Learn How to Take Climate Action
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During this year’s Orientation, on day one, new MIT students stepped into the shoes of global decision-makers, using the simulator to test climate policies, explore solutions, and envision the future they want to create.
AI implementation strategies from MIT Sloan Management Review
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Value creation is the true measure of successful AI implementation. It starts at proof of concept and considers AI’s impact on an industry, not just a company.
Former Boston Fed President Rosengren: The Fed will have to rely on 'noisier' data during shutdown
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MIT GCFP Visiting Scholar and former Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren weighs in on how the government shutdown affects the Federal Reserve’s access to economic data.
Select Accounting Faculty
Full-Time Faculty

Paul Asquith
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance
Paul Asquith is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Asquith is a specialist in corporate finance and a media source for the field of corporate finance and control, including…
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John E. Core
Nanyang Technological University Professor of Accounting
John E. Core is the Nanyang Technological University Professor and a Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Core has broad research interests in executive compensation and executive stock and option incentives, corporate…
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Michelle Hanlon
Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research
Michelle Hanlon is the Howard W. Johnson Professor, a Professor of Accounting, and Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management Hanlon’s primary teaching at Sloan is the Taxes and Business Strategy class. She has won…
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S.P. Kothari
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance
S.P. Kothari is Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Professor Kothari has senior executive experience in government, academia, and industry with expertise in strategic and policy issues,…
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