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

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  Nittai Bergman

  Associate Professor of Finance
  

  Nittai Bergman has been teaching MBA Corporate Finance since joining the MIT Sloan School of Management faculty in 2003.

  Bergman focuses his research on the fields of international corporate governance and behavioral corporate finance. Currently, he is studying the determinants of corporate disclosure policy and transparency in inefficient markets, the use of firm charter amendments as a mechanism to improve corporate governance, and the relation between stock option compensation and employee sentiment...

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  Nittai Bergman has been teaching MBA Corporate Finance since joining the MIT Sloan School of Management faculty in 2003.

  Bergman focuses his research on the fields of international corporate governance and behavioral corporate finance. Currently, he is studying the determinants of corporate disclosure policy and transparency in inefficient markets, the use of firm charter amendments as a mechanism to improve corporate governance, and the relation between stock option compensation and employee sentiment.

  Bergman has two papers under submission: “Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation” at the Journal of Finance, and “Investor Protection and the Co-Asian View” at the Journal of Financial Economics.

  Bergman holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a BSc in mathematics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. While a student, he was the recipient of several awards, including the Dillon Fellowship, the national Israeli Distinguished Student Award, and the Distinction in Teaching Award. Before commencing his studies at Harvard, Bergman served in an operations research unit in the Planning Division at IDF headquarters. (less)

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  Carola Frydman

  Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
  

  Carola Frydman is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University. From 2006 to 2011, she was a faculty member at the MIT Sloan finance group, where she taught the MBA Corporate Finance course. Professor Frydman is an expert on the long-run trends in executive compensation and corporate governance... ... (more)

  Carola Frydman is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University. From 2006 to 2011, she was a faculty member at the MIT Sloan finance group, where she taught the MBA Corporate Finance course. Professor Frydman is an expert on the long-run trends in executive compensation and corporate governance. Her research has studied the determinants of executive pay, the effect of tax policy on CEO compensation, and the impact of managerial characteristics on firm outcomes. Her current work is focused on the role of financial intermediaries for corporate policies and economic growth.

  Frydman’s research has been published at the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Public Economics, the Annual Review of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Economic History. Her work has been featured, among others, in Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and The Economist.

  She holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University, and a BA summa cum laude and an MA in economics from Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. While a student, Frydman received several prestigious scholarships, including the Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Honorary Fellowship at Harvard University, and the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the American Finance Association and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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  Scott Keating

  Senior Lecturer, Accounting
  

  Scott Keating teaches in the accounting group. Prior to joining MIT Sloan, Keating taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business for eight years. As a clinical professor of accounting, he taught case-based managerial accounting in the full-time MBA program, the evening and weekend MBA programs, and the Executive MBA programs in Chicago, London, and Singapore... ... (more)

  Scott Keating teaches in the accounting group. Prior to joining MIT Sloan, Keating taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business for eight years. As a clinical professor of accounting, he taught case-based managerial accounting in the full-time MBA program, the evening and weekend MBA programs, and the Executive MBA programs in Chicago, London, and Singapore. He also worked closely with the Office of Executive Education to develop and deliver a number of open-enrollment and custom executive education programs in accounting and finance. Previously, Keating spent five years as an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business.

  Keating's expertise in managerial accounting includes how business decisions are optimally based on opportunity costs, how accounting numbers can reflect these opportunity costs, and how cost allocations and transfer prices can affect the apparent costs and benefits of decision making. While focusing on helping managers to make the transition from functional to general management, he explores the areas of decision making, finance and accounting, leadership, strategy, and marketing.

  He holds a DBA from Harvard Business School, an MBA from Dartmouth College, and a BSc and LLB from McGill University. (less)