Maureen McNichols

Maureen McNichols is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management and Professor of Accounting and also serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her leading research on earnings management and its implications for investors, and on analysts’ incentives, forecasts, and investment recommendations, has received considerable attention from academics, investors, and regulators. Her papers appear in the leading journals in accounting and finance and have garnered several Best Paper awards. She served as an editor of Review of Accounting Studies and has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Contemporary Accounting Research.