Stefan J. Reichelstein
Distinguished Affiliate Professor and ESMT President, as of June 1, 2012
Stefan Reichelstein joined ESMT in September 2010 as a distinguished affiliate professor. His main position is the William R. Timken Professor of Accounting in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. Stefan received his PhD from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1984. Prior to that, he completed his undergraduate studies in economics at the University of Bonn in Germany.
Over the past 20 years, he has served on the faculties of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, the University of Vienna in Austria, and the Stanford GSB. His teaching has spanned financial and managerial accounting courses offered to undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral students. Stefan’s research has been supported by government agencies and private foundations; several of his papers have won “Best-Paper” awards. In addition to serving on the editorial boards of a number of journals, he is currently an editor of The Review of Accounting Studies and the Department Editor for Accounting at Management Science. He has been a consultant to select companies and government organizations.
He is known internationally for his research on the interface of management accounting and economics. His most recent work has addressed cost- and profitability analysis, decentralization, internal pricing and performance measurement. These research projects have spanned both analytical models and field studies. Stefan’s papers have been published consistently in leading accounting and economics journals. Insights from his research have been applied by a range of corporations and government organizations.
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