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William Wright is a distinguished professor in Accounting, currently holding the position of Zimmerman Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Santa Clara University in 1971. His extensive academic career includes professorship roles at several prestigious institutions such as the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas, where he held the Walter B. Cole Professorship. Wright has also served as a visiting professor at numerous universities, including Cornell University and Duke University. His teaching and research interests focus primarily on auditing, management accounting, and financial accounting, particularly in MBA programs. He has published numerous articles and contributed to significant research on audit judgments, fraud detection, and performance evaluation in managerial accounting contexts. Wright's work has been recognized with several awards, including the Zimmerman Scholar award and the Journal Management Accounting Research Paper Award from the American Accounting Association. He is actively involved in research initiatives, examining the impact of information technology on team communication and collaboration in business settings.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL
Professor of Accounting, focused on research and teaching in accounting.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL
Visiting Zimmerman Scholar.
University of Waterloo • Waterloo, ON, Canada
Teaching and conducting research in accounting.
Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas • Fayetteville, AR
Held the Walter B. Cole Professorship, conducting research and teaching.
Cornell University • Ithaca, NY
Visiting position in the Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Duke University • Durham, NC
Visiting Professor at the Fuqua School of Business.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Conducted research and taught at the School of Business Administration.
University of California, Irvine • Irvine, CA
Associate Professor of Accounting.
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. •
Conducted research in auditing.
University of Minnesota • Minneapolis, MN
Associate Professor in Accounting.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Assistant Professor of Accounting.
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