Speakers
Robert Bloomfield
Department of Economics
Since arriving at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1991, Robert Bloomfield has used laboratory experiments to study financial markets, investor behavior, and management accounting practices, and has published in all major business disciplines, including economics, finance, accounting, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations research. His most recent research focuses on how to lead accounting deliberations, a process of elicitation, analysis, and evaluation that seeks a shared and justified understanding of the best accounting practices to improve stewardship in a given situation.
Bloomfield has served as director of the Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative, an activity of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, as editor of a special issue of Journal of Accounting Research dedicated to Registered Reports of Empirical Research, as editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society, and as editor of Journal of Financial Reporting, pioneering an innovative editorial process intended to broaden the range of research methods used in accounting, improve the quality of research execution, and encourage honest reporting of findings.
At the Johnson School and the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business, Professor Bloomfield has served as faculty director of eLearning, faculty director of EMBA Programs, and Chair of the Accounting Area, and has developed numerous online courses in financial accounting, management accounting, and strategic decision-making. He is the author of the award-winning ebook What Counts and What Gets Counted, which can be downloaded for free online. He is currently working on a new book on how to lead accounting deliberations.
Nicole Cade
Nicole Cade is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Pittsburgh and a co-editor at the Journal of Financial Reporting. Her research investigates issues related to corporate disclosure and individual investor behavior. To inform her research, she typically conducts experiments like those utilized in social and cognitive psychology.
Alan Jagolinzer
Alan Jagolinzer is the Professor of Financial Accounting, the Vice Dean for Programmes, and the Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He was previously at the University of Colorado and Stanford University and has earned teaching recognition at four universities including the 2010 Stanford University MBA Distinguished Teaching Award. He was the 2015 Academic Fellow at the International Accounting Standards Board.
Alan has published research on insider trading, corporate governance, and the efficacy of international and U.S. financial reporting standards in top finance and accounting journals. He is currently examining university governance, disinformation, crypto coin influencer networks, and populist threats to market regulatory institutions.
He serves on advisory boards to the UK [financial reporting standards] Endorsement Board, Exorde Labs, and Bellingcat. He convenes the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, and chairs the Summit’s project committees on grade-school critical thinking and literacy, protecting global academic independence from populist, political, and influencer threats, and developing and disseminating business leadership curriculum regarding information threats and responsibilities.
He was previously an active-duty pilot in the United States Air Force, flying T-37, T-38, and E-3 AWACS aircraft.
Katherine Schipper
Katherine Schipper is the Thomas F. Keller Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Ms. Schipper holds a BA degree summa cum laude from the University of Dayton, MBA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago and honorary degrees from Notre Dame University, the Norwegian School of Economics, the Stockholm School of Economics and the Singapore Management University. Prior to joining Duke University’s faculty, she was a Board member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). She has also been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago.
Ms. Schipper has published research papers on topics in financial reporting, corporation finance and corporate governance. She is a frequent speaker on matters related to international accounting convergence, financial reporting standard setting and financial reporting quality. She has been named the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Educator and Distinguished International Lecturer, and has been elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame. She has served the American Accounting Association as Director of Research, as President and as President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. She has served the International Association for Accounting Education and Research as Vice President-Research and she is currently serving as President. She is or has been a member of the governing boards of two public companies, a mutual fund and a not-for-profit entity.