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.
Data, Disclosure, and Decision Making
Event Overview
Join Cornell SC Johnson College of Business professors Glen Dowell and Kristina Rennekamp, along with accounting standards expert Jeffrey Hales Ph.D. 2003, for a conversation on corporate social responsibility and sustainability reporting as it relates to the environment, the economy, and equality. This is sure to be a discussion which will inform forward-looking leaders.
What You'll Learn
- The need to balance environmental, economic, and societal needs for a sustainable future
- Pressures for effective corporate investor and market communications
- Leadership and environmental and cultural accountability disclosures
- Evolution of corporate sustainability standards, strategies, and disclosure
Speakers

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.


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.
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