Brian J. White

Biography

Brian White is a professor of accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research focuses on behavioral factors that affect judgments and decisions of participants in the financial reporting process. White teaches financial accounting in the Executive MBA Americas program and a PhD seminar on behavioral research in accounting.

White’s research has won multiple awards and has been published in leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society.

He has degrees from Georgetown University, the University of Edinburgh, Manchester Business School, and the University of Illinois where he completed his PhD. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he spent 10 years as finance director for a privately held retailer based in Liverpool, England. Prior to joining the Johnson School, White was on the faculty at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Education

PhD Gies College of Business, University Of Illinois At Urbana, Champaign, 2012
MBA Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, 2002
MS Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh, 1997
BS Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1995