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Mark W. Nelson

Professor Nelson's MBA teaching is concentrated primarily in financial accounting and auditing. He also teaches in several Johnson School executive programs. Professor Nelson has won three Johnson School Apple Awards for Teaching Excellence, the Johnson School's Stephen Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, and Ohio State University's Coopers & Lybrand Teaching Award.

Professor Nelson's current research examines psychological and economic factors that influence how people interpret and apply accounting, auditing, and tax regulations and trade in financial markets. Some recent studies have examined the methods by which firms manage their earnings and the effectiveness of the audit function in preventing earnings management. Other recent studies examine how investors' psychological biases lead to predictable security mispricing. Professor Nelson's research has been published in such scholarly journals as the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Academy of Management Review, and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. His work has been reported by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CFO Magazine, CNBC, and numerous other outlets in the business press. In recognition of his scholarship, Professor Nelson has won the American Accounting Association's Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, the American Accounting Association's Wildman Medal for research contributions that advance the practice of accounting, and the Johnson School's Faculty Research Award. He also has received a KPMG Peat Marwick Research Fellowship and Faculty Fellowship, two KPMG Peat Marwick Research Opportunities in Auditing Awards, a Whitcomb Fellowship and an Arthur Andersen Dissertation Fellowship.

Professor Nelson serves on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, a group of CEOs, CFOs, senior partners of public accounting firms, and senior members of the academic and analyst communities who advise the Financial Accounting Standards Board. He also serves as an Editor of the Accounting Review, and is a member of the editorial boards of Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Accounting, Organizations and Society.