Dr. John Core

Professor

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Biography

John E. Core is a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in accounting. His broad research interests span executive compensation, executive stock option incentives, corporate governance, nonprofit governance, and disclosure cost of capital. He has published research in prestigious journals such as the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, and Journal of Financial Economics. Core teaches the core Financial Accounting class to first-year MBA students at MIT Sloan. Prior to his academic career, he worked in investment banking at PaineWebber and as a compensation consultant at Ernst & Young. Core holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a PhD from the Wharton School. His areas of interest include Accounting Fraud, Compensation Contracting, Corporate Disclosure Practices, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Management Control, Managerial Accounting, Performance Measurement Systems, and Valuation.

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Professor

— Present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA

Teaches core Financial Accounting class to first-year MBA students.