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High-Ability Managers Save Their Shareholders Millions in Corporate Income Taxes
An article by Allison Koester: Each year, the majority of public companies in the United States pay 20 to 40 percent of pretax income to the government in the form of income taxes. Since every dollar...
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Women in Business – Allison Koester, Assistant Professor
Allison Koester is an assistant professor of accounting at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in the US. An expert on corporate taxes, financial reporting and financial misconduct,...
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Alibaba’s Risks: Chines-Ecommerce Giant Opens Books for Initial Public Offering
“It’s important to remember why Alibaba is going public in the U.S.,” said Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance and business administration from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business,...
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Alibaba Underwriters Go from Alpha to Beta in IPO
“I can't think of anyone else who has done that,” Reena Aggarwal, a professor of finance and business administration at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, said of the alphabetical...
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Undergraduates and Faculty Honored at Tropaia Ceremony
Seniors earning top academic and service honors were recognized at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Tropaia Exercises Friday, May 16, 2014, in Gaston Hall.During the ceremony,...
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CEO Succession: A Conversation with Richard Beyer
An article by Jason Schloetzer: “Recently, The Conference Board published the 2014 CEO Succession Practices Report. As a follow-up to that report, which I co-authored with Melissa Aguilar and Matteo...
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Georgetown Hosts Accounting Expert for Research Discussions, Advising
The accounting group at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business hosted Distinguished Visiting Scholar Terry Shevlin June 11-13. Shevlin led sessions discussing his research and...
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Consumer Spending of Tax Refunds is a Matter of Perspective
A new study of consumer spending of tax refunds finds a correlation between how the refunds are perceived and whether taxpayers opt to spend the money right away or save it for later. The study, from...
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Horse Sense: Lessons in Horse Racing and Breeding from Professor Tom Cooke
For Tom Cooke, the search for a new weekend hobby about 30 years ago turned into a lifelong passion.By Jennifer Lubell It started when Cooke stumbled upon a racetrack in Laurel, Maryland, that hosted...
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Alphabet Reorganization Injects Start-Up Cachet into Google
Google’s reorganization into Alphabet Inc. is a way to show it can be a cool, nimble start-up — again. The separation of the disparate businesses “essentially decentralizes authority” so that...
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Sinclair Honored with 40 Under Forty Award for Accounting
James Sinclair, a visiting assistant professor of accounting at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, was honored by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA)...
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New Faculty Join Georgetown McDonough
This fall, seven new tenure-track and visiting faculty members and professors of the practice joined Georgetown University’s McDonough’s School of Business.Tenured and Tenure-Track FacultySean Blair,...
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Critics Push Back at Clinton Tax Proposal Targeting High-Frequency Traders
“We don’t yet know how good or bad this idea could be,” said James Angel, a professor at Georgetown University who studies markets. “If it’s a small fee used for regulatory purposes, then it could be...
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More CEOs Are Becoming Like Warren Buffett
"Going back as far as the 1970s, the relation between better stock market performance for the company and longer CEO tenure is quite strong," says Jason Schloetzer, an associate professor at Georgetown...
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Accounting Professor Appointed GASB Academic Fellow
William R. Baber, accounting professor and accounting area coordinator for the McDonough School of Business, was recently appointed a 2016 academic fellow from the Governmental Accounting Standard’s...
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Faculty Named 2016 Dean's Fellows
Eleven tenured, full-time Georgetown University McDonough School of Business faculty members have been appointed Dean’s Fellows for 2016-2017. The awards aim to support and reward tenured faculty who...
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The 40 Under 40 Most Outstanding MBA Professors
Allison Koester, assistant professor of accounting, is one of the 2016 “40 Under 40 Most Outstanding MBA Professors,” according to Poets & Quants. The list recognizes rising stars at business...
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Citadel Tops List of Private U.S. Trading Venues
"By putting out this data, it gives us a sense of who is doing what and it gives us a better understanding of how stock trades take place," said James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown...
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Katzenberg to Relinquish DreamWorks Animation CEO Role After Comcast Deal
Jason Schloetzer, a Georgetown University accounting professor and corporate governance expert, said Comcast may want to hold onto Katzenberg for several years as his company adjusts to new ownership....
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The Sport of Kings after American Pharoah
"We have done a horrible job of reaching out to the next generation," said Thomas Cooke, a professor of business and law at Georgetown University who heads a race horse association in Maryland. Cook...
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