Robert M. (Bob) Bowen
Professor
Bowen teaches courses
in financial reporting and managerial accounting. He has written
a number of widely used cases and has earned over 40 teaching awards,
including one from every graduating Executive MBA class from 1987
through 2011 (except 2009) -- 35 awards out of 37 opportunities. After
visiting INSEAD (Fontainebleau,
France) in Winter 2001, he received the Best Core Teacher award
from the December 2001 graduating class.
Professor Bowen is among "The top 100 Most Prolific Authors in the
Accounting Literature Over the Past Half-Century: 1959-2008," J.
Heck (2009). His research has garnered three national awards. His papers
have appeared in journals such as the The Accounting Review, Contemporary
Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal
of Applied Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Financial
and Quantitative Analysis. A number have been highly cited;
one has been labeled a "classic" in
the accounting literature; and another is among the top 100 in
'all time' downloads out of over 270,000 papers on the Social Sciences
Research Network (SSRN). Bob is currently ranked among the "Top
200" (out of over 160,000 authors) in papers downloaded from
SSRN across 'all time.' His current research interests include corporate
governance, disclosure
policies, earnings
management, and the stock-price-relevance of financial and
non-financial data. His
co-authored work includes studies of the value-relevance of alternative
earnings metrics such as "economic value added" (EVA).
His work has been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and CFO
Magazine. Bowen is a former member of the Editorial Board
of The Accounting
Review and is an ad hoc referee for several academic journals.
His Ph.D. students started their careers at schools such as Harvard,
Michigan, UT-Dallas, UC-Irvine,
USC, and
Washington University (St. Louis).
Education:
- Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978
- M.B.A., Washington University (St. Louis), 1971
- A.B., Drury University, 1968
Research Interests:
- Disclosure policies
- Earnings management
- Corporate governance
- Stock-price-relevance of financial and non-financial data
updated: May 2011
