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Dr. David Kass has published articles in corporate finance, industrial organization, and health economics. He currently teaches Advanced Financial Management and Business Finance, and is the Faculty Champion for the Sophomore Finance Fellows. Prior to joining the faculty of the Smith School in 2004, he held senior positions with the Federal Government (Federal Trade Commission, General Accounting Office, Department of Defense, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis). Dr. Kass has recently appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, PBS Nightly Business Report, Maryland Public Television, Business News Network TV (Canada), FOX TV, Bloomberg Radio, Wharton Business Radio, KCBS Radio, American Public Media's Marketplace Radio, and WYPR Radio (Baltimore), and has been quoted on numerous occasions by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, The New York Times and The Washington Post, where he has primarily discussed Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, the economy, and the stock market. He has also launched a Smith School “Warren Buffett” blog. Dr. Kass has accompanied MBA students on trips to Omaha for private meetings with Warren Buffett, and Finance Fellows to Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meetings. He was an officer of the Harvard Business School Club of Washington, DC, and is a member of the investment and budget committees of a local nonprofit organization. Dr. Kass received a Smith School "Top 15% Teaching Award" for 2009-2010, a "Distinguished Teaching Award (Top 10%)" for 2014-2015, and the prestigious "Krowe Teaching Award” for 2015 and 2019.

David Larcker鈥檚 research focuses on executive compensation, corporate governance, and managerial accounting. His work examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organizations. He has current research projects on the valuation implications of corporate governance, the impact of proxy advisory firms on shareholder proxy voting and modeling the cost of executive stock options.

David is the director of the Corporate Governance Research Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business and senior faculty of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He was previously the Ernst & Young Professor of accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and professor of accounting and information systems at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his PhD in business from the University of Kansas and his BS and MS in Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. He received the Notable Contribution to Managerial Accounting Research in 2001.

David Larcker鈥檚 research focuses on executive compensation, corporate governance, and managerial accounting. His work examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organizations. He has current research projects on the valuation implications of corporate governance, the impact of proxy advisory firms on shareholder proxy voting and modeling the cost of executive stock options.

Kathleen Day joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2013. A business author and journalist, she is a full-time lecturer with a specialty in financial crises and how they spread; in corporate governance; and in business communication, particularly during crises. Ms. Day previously taught at Georgetown University's graduate program in real estate, where she created an ethics course based on the series of financial crises in the United States over the last several decades, from the Great Recession through the 1980s banking crisis and the mortgage meltdown of 2007. In addition to financial crises, her interests include the related topics of corporate governance, particularly the history of the corporate form; government regulation and oversight; lobbying and campaign finance; ethics; crisis communication; and the application of artificial intelligence in finance. She recently joined an initiative of a non-profit group and several major corporations to raise the profile in the media and among policymakers of women, especially minority women, who are experts in business and technology. 

Day is the author of the books Broken Bargain: Banks, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street (Yale University Press, January 2019) and S&L Hell: the people and politics behind the $1 trillion savings-and-loan crisis (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993).

Schipani’s research focuses primarily on corporate governance, specifically on the relationship among directors, officers, shareholders, and other stakeholders and pathways for women to obtain positions of organizational leadership. Schipani teaches business law topics. She holds a BA from Michigan State University and a JD from the University of Chicago. 

Scott C. Jackson joined the UNLV faculty in fall 2023. Jackson primarily teaches financial accounting courses, ranging from principles to advanced, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. His current research interests focus on investors’ and managers’ judgment and decision making processes, with a particular focus on CEO gender, shareholder activism, corporate governance, and voluntary disclosure.
His work has appeared in various journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Forensic Accounting Research, and Issues in Accounting Education. His research has been cited in several news outlets, including Forbes, MSN, The National Tribune, and IR Magazine. Prior to academia, Jackson worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers Atlanta.
His Spanish fluency is certified as “Advanced” by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Jackson is an active member of the Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations (ABO) and Financial Accounting and Reporting sections (FARS) of the American Accounting Association (AAA), and has served as reviewer for many academic journals, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Behavioral Research in Accounting.