I am an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. Prior to joining Eller in 2022, I earned my PhD in Finance from the University of Utah and worked as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Tulane University. My research interests include empirical corporate finance, labor economics, and disclosure policy. My work has been published in top academic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. My work has been cited in major media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.
Publications/Paper Access:
- Workplace Knowledge Flows
- Quarterly Journal of Economics (2020), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- Board Monitoring, Director Connections, and Credit Quality
- Journal of Corporate Finance (2020), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- Research: How Virtual Teams Can Better Share Knowledge
- Harvard Business Review (2020), (Published Text)
- Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm
- Management Science (2021), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- Creativity Contests: A Field Experiment on Eliciting Employee Creativity
- Journal of Accounting Research (2023), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- Clawback Provisions and Firm Risk
- Review of Corporate Finance Studies (2023), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- CEO Activism and Firm Value
- Management Science (2023), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- CEO Pay Ratio Voluntary Disclosures and Stakeholder Reactions
- Review of Accounting Studies (2024), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- The Trouble with Your Innovation Contests
- MIT Sloan Management Review (2024), (Published Text)
- Employee Responses to CEO Activism
- Journal of Accounting and Economics (2024), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- IPO Price Formation and Board Gender Diversity
- Journal of Corporate Finance (2024), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- Should Human Capital Development Programs be Mandatory or Voluntary? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Mentorship
- Management Science (2025), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- CEO Pay Ratio Disclosures and Changes in Employee Pay Satisfaction
- Management Science (2025), (Pre-Pub. Text) (Published Text)
- New Research Debunks a Common Criticism of Pay Transparency
- Harvard Business Review (2025), (Published Text)
Working Papers/Paper Access:
- Personal Taxes and Unrelated Mergers and Acquisitions
- Revise and Resubmit: Management Science, (View on SSRN)
- The Impact of Workplace Gender Diversity Disclosures on Job Selection Decisions
- Reject and Resubmit: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, (View on SSRN)
- The Effects of Human Capital Disclosures on Professional Investors’ Assessments of Firm Risk
- Revise and Resubmit: Journal of Accounting Research, (View on SSRN)
- The Impact of AI Evaluators and Incentive Schemes on Employee Idea Sharing
- Revise and Resubmit: The Accounting Review, (View on SSRN)
- Understanding CEO Activism: Initial Insights and Future Research Directions
- Board Gender Diversity and Workforce Composition, Compensation, and Retention for U.S. Publicly Traded Firms
- When Mandatory Disclosure Causes CEOs to Reduce Information Sharing: Evidence from the CEO Pay Ratio
- Small-Scale Mentoring, Large-Scale Innovation: Evidence from a Superstar Firm
- Stakeholder Responses to Corporate Advocacy for U.S. Voting Rights
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- Who Cares About Excess CEO Compensation? Evidence from Overpaid CEO Designations
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Research Interests:
Empirical Corporate Finance, Labor and Finance, Disclosure Policy, Experimental Economics
Curriculum Vitae:
Public Lectures:
Kelley School of Business – Institute for Corporate Governance Lecture Series – CEO Activism
MentorcliQ Webinar – A Discussion about Mandatory vs. Voluntary Mentorship