PhD Faculty
At Bentley, your research will probe some of the most compelling issues in business today, all under the umbrella theme of business, technology and society. You will be working with members of the Bentley faculty who are committed to disciplinary rigor in a trans-disciplinary environment focused on the individual student. Selecting faculty advisers at the very outset of your PhD studies establishes an early basis for a true partnership.
Your faculty team will comprise professors with national and international reputations in their respective fields — whether from business departments, or from the arts or sciences — experts who have distinguished themselves through teaching, research, and corporate leadership experience. For example, in exploring global outsourcing, you might employ sociological theory and research and consider different political and cultural contexts. Similarly, if your focus is comparing accountancy systems in different countries; you might include the study of a modern language. In these examples, your supervisory team might include faculty from both a business department and an arts and sciences department.
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi
Jean C. Bedard
James E. Hunton
Tracy Noga
Mark R. Nixon
Jay Thibodeau
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi (Ali) is the John E. Rhodes Professor of Accountancy at Bentley University. He has a doctorate in business administration from Indiana University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He has formerly taught at Indiana University, Boston University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. His teaching includes auditing and methods and practices of professional research. Having interest primarily in behavioral auditing research, Ali has published regularly in Accounting and Business Research, The Accounting Review, Advances in Accounting, Auditing: a Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research In Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among others.
Jean C. Bedard is the Timothy B. Harbert Professor of Accountancy at Bentley University. Her research primarily focuses on improving audit efficiency and effectiveness, specifically in the areas of audit risk assessment, evidential planning, analytical procedures, and audit firm client portfolio management. Professor Bedard is a past president of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association.
James E. Hunton is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor of Accounting at the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley University and research professor and accounting and information management research chair at the Universiteit Maastricht. He conducts basic and practice-oriented research on a wide array of topics that span the domains of accounting, information systems and psychology, such as the effect of financial accounting presentation formats on various user groups, assessment of risks and controls surrounding accounting information systems, establishment of enterprise-wide governance and control systems, audit of accounting information technologies, and conditions under which corporate managers tend to engage in earnings management strategies.
Tracy Noga is an assistant professor of accountancy with a specialty in taxation. Noga's primary research interests are in tax policy and its effects on different aspects of the economy as well as tax equity, corporate book-tax differences, information systems and taxpayer behavior, education, and ethics.
Mark R. Nixon is the Chair of the Accountancy department and an Associate Professor. His teaching interests are in the area of taxation and his research interests include behavioral issues in tax compliance. He has recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics. As a consultant he has specialized in tax planning and business consulting for Deloitte, Haskins & Sells and as a sole practitioner.
Jay Thibodeau is the Edward F. Gibbons Research Professor at Bentley University. He received his BS degree from the University of Connecticut in December 1987 and his PhD from the University of Connecticut in August 1996. He joined the faculty at Bentley University in September of 1996. Jay worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Learning and Education group to help deliver critical knowledge about the post-Sarbanes-Oxley technical audit guidance to professionals throughout the firm. At Bentley, he serves as the coordinator for all audit and assurance curriculum matters. He currently serves as chair of the National Education Committee for the American Accounting Association's Auditing Section. He has recently published a book entitled, Auditing after Sarbanes-Oxley: Illustrative Cases. He has also been published in Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Issues in Accounting Education, Commercial Lending Review, Advances in Accounting Education, Asian-Pacific Journal of Accounting, Practical Accountant, Journal of Financial Education and Managerial Auditing. Thibodeau received national recognition for his dissertation and curriculum work as well.
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