Brian White

Brian White

  • Associate Professor
  • Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research

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Faculty Area

Interdisciplinary Theme

Faculty Expertise

  • Accounting
  • Behavioral Research
  • Decision Making
  • Sustainability

Contact

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

bjw235@cornell.edu

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Biography

Brian White is an associate professor of accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research focuses on behavioral factors that affect judgments and decisions of participants in the financial reporting process. White teaches financial accounting in the Executive MBA Americas program and a PhD seminar on behavioral research in accounting.

White's research has won multiple awards and has been published in leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society.

White has degrees from Georgetown University, the University of Edinburgh, Manchester Business School, and the University of Illinois where he completed his PhD. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he spent 10 years as finance director for a privately held retailer based in Liverpool, England. Prior to joining Cornell Johnson, Brian was on the faculty at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Recent Courses

  • NCC 5000/LAW 6460 - Financial Accounting
  • NCCB 5000 - Financial Accounting

Academic Degrees

  • PhD Gies College of Business, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2012
  • MBA Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, 2002
  • MS Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1997
  • BS Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1995