2009 Headlines
Accounting Hall of Fame Inducts the Johnson School's Dyckman
Longtime accounting professor earns one of his field's greatest distinctions
July 22, 2009 | Ithaca, NY | Thomas R. Dyckman, professor emeritus at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, was named the 84th member of the Accounting Hall of Fame, one of his discipline's highest honors. His induction takes place on August 3, 2009, at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association in New York, New York.
Dyckman, who joined the Johnson School faculty in 1964, was the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Accounting for the 19 years prior to his retirement in 2006. His extensive record of scholarly work focuses on empirical studies of financial reporting and related regulatory and market phenomena. He was an early exponent of empirical methods in accounting research. During the 1970s and 1980s, he conducted seminal research on the effect of accounting disclosures on market prices. Dyckman has authored or co-authored 11 books and monographs and more than 60 published articles.
In addition to his decades of prolific and significant research in his field, Dyckman is also beloved of thousands of Cornell MBA students, who have benefitted from his energetic teaching for 45 years. He earned the Johnson School's Stephen Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994, given by the five-year reunion class to the professor whose teaching most influenced their early careers. In 1987, he was named the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Educator.
Dyckman's service to Cornell University and the Johnson School extends well beyond his classroom and research contributions. He was associate dean for academic affairs for 13 years, and served as acting dean of the school for two years. He also spent a year as Cornell's vice president for information technology and served as chair of the university's Financial Policy Committee.
Dyckman will be presented for induction by longtime colleague and friend, Robert Libby, the David A. Thomas Professor of Management and professor accounting and behavioral science at the Johnson School.
"Tom is one of a small group of faculty, who helped build the Johnson School from a small, growing MBA program in the 1960s, to the top-tier business school it is today," Libby said. "He is as responsible as anyone for our unique collaborative culture. His energy, talent, and enthusiasm for teaching and research have influenced generations of students. For me, he is the model of the perfect faculty member."
