Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

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  Michelle Hanlon

  Howard W. Johnson Professor
  Professor of Accounting
  

  Michelle specializes in empirical research at the intersection of taxation and financial accounting. Her recent work examines the capital market and financial accounting effects of book-tax conformity; measures, causes, and consequences of corporate tax avoidance; tax and accounting effects on foreign investment and repatriation of foreign earnings; and an examination of firms that report their financial accounting fraudulently... ... (more)

  Michelle specializes in empirical research at the intersection of taxation and financial accounting. Her recent work examines the capital market and financial accounting effects of book-tax conformity; measures, causes, and consequences of corporate tax avoidance; tax and accounting effects on foreign investment and repatriation of foreign earnings; and an examination of firms that report their financial accounting fraudulently. She has recently completed a review of the tax literature as part of a series of invited papers by the Journal of Accounting and Economics. Michelle’s research has been published in The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Journal of Public Economics, among other journals. She is currently an editor of The Journal of Accounting and Economics and has served on several other journals’ editorial boards.

  She is both a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA). She has given numerous talks about her research at various universities and policy forums. She has provided staff briefings for both senior Treasury personnel in the Office of Tax Policy and the Senate Finance Committee as well as to Congressional staff members. She has been a speaker at several doctoral consortiums, New Faculty Consortiums, and has represented the JAE on editor panels. Most recently she was part of the American delegation of the Young Leaders Conference in Basel, Switzerland organized by the American Swiss Foundation. Prior to entering academia, she worked for KPMG.

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  Christopher Noe

  Senior Lecturer, Accounting
  

  Chris Noe specializes in the fields of financial accounting and corporate finance. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at MIT Sloan, Dr. Noe was a Vice President at Charles River Associates, an economics consulting firm. His work at CRA included valuation of business enterprises, financial securities, and specific assets/liabilities; financial statement analysis; examination of accounting restatements; solvency assessment; and damages estimation... ... (more)

  Chris Noe specializes in the fields of financial accounting and corporate finance. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at MIT Sloan, Dr. Noe was a Vice President at Charles River Associates, an economics consulting firm. His work at CRA included valuation of business enterprises, financial securities, and specific assets/liabilities; financial statement analysis; examination of accounting restatements; solvency assessment; and damages estimation. Dr. Noe has published on topics such as voluntary disclosures and insider transactions, analyst specialization and stock breakups, and stock return volatility. (less)
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  Joseph Weber

  George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management
  Professor of Accounting
  

  Joseph Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market—performance pricing—allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract... ... (more)

  Joseph Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market—performance pricing—allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract.

  Weber’s research has recently appeared in Accounting Research. When not conducting research, he teaches the Managerial Accounting elective, which is available to first- and second-year MBA students at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

  Prior to entering academia, Weber worked for PriceWaterhouse and AXA Financial. (less)