Data, Disclosure, and Decision Making

Glen Dowell is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. He researches in the area of corporate sustainability, with a focus on firm environmental performance. Recent projects have investigated the effect of local demographic factors on changes in pollution levels, the role of corporate merger and acquisition in facilitating changes in facility environmental performance, and the relative influence of financial return and disruption on the commercial adoption of energy savings initiatives.

Professor Dowell’s research has been published in Management Science, Organization Studies, Advances in Strategic Management, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Business Ethics, and Administrative Science Quarterly. He is senior editor at Organization Science and co-editor of Strategic Organization, is on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly, and represents Cornell on the board of the Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability (ARCS). He is also the Division Chair for the Organizations and Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.

Professor Dowell teaches Sustainable Global Enterprise and Critical and Strategic Thinking. He is a faculty affiliate for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

Jeffrey Hales ‘03 is the Charles T. Zlatkovich Centennial Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin, and he serves as the current chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). His research interests center on accounting standard setting and regulation, individual decision making, and behavioral finance, using techniques from applied game theory, experimental economics, and psychology. Professor Hales’s research has appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, among other journals. He currently serves as an editor for Accounting Horizons and Contemporary Accounting Research, as well as on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Accounting, Organizations and Society. At Georgia Tech, Professor Hales teaches financial accounting and Ph.D. seminars on behavioral accounting and finance, policy-oriented research in accounting, and the psychology of judgment and decision making.

Kristina Rennekamp is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Her research examines financial accounting from a behavioral perspective; in particular, how biases affect managers’ disclosure decisions and users’ judgments with respect to those disclosures. Professor Rennekamp teaches financial accounting in the one- and two-year residential MBA programs in Ithaca, as well as Cornell’s Executive MBA of the Americas. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and the AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section’s award for the best dissertation completed in 2012. Professor Rennekamp’s research has been published in leading journals, such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics; The Accounting Review; Accounting, Organizations and Society; and Contemporary Accounting Research.