Mark FinnMark Finn, Northwestern University
Mark Finn is a Clinical Professor of Accounting at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, having served on the Kellogg faculty since 1996. Prior to Kellogg, Professor Finn was on the faulty of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He has also been affiliated with the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), since 2003. He has been a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad and Mohali) and Keio University (Hiyoshi, Japan). From 2001 to 2008 he was director of Kellogg's Global Initiatives in Management (GIM) program. He received a PhD from Cornell University and a BA with honors from Stanford University.
Professor Finn teaches core financial accounting and advanced classes in financial reporting, taxation, international accounting, and sustainability reporting. He received the Chairs' Core Teaching Award in 1999, 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2014 and the Indian School of Business's Teacher of the Year award in 2003, 2008, and 2009. Within the GIM program, he served as a faculty adviser to classes on China, Japan, India, and South Africa. His primary research interests are related to the quality and credibility of financial disclosures, especially in non-U.S. settings. His research articles include "Market Rewards for Increasing Earnings Patterns," published in the Journal of Accounting Research. Read More Read Less