Mahendra Gupta

Mahendra Gupta

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Gupta was appointed dean of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis in July 2005. He has served on the Olin faculty since 1990 and in 2004 was named the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and Management. Students have given him the Reid Teaching Award eight times since 2001. He was chosen the Marcile and James Reid Professor for 1996-1997. Gupta's research has been published in leading academic journals in the United States and abroad. He has served on several editorial boards including The Accounting Review, The Journal of Management Accounting Research, Canadian Accounting Review, and Accounting Horizons. He is a frequent speaker at research workshops and conferences worldwide. Gupta has been a consultant to various firms and government agencies. He serves on Brown Shoe Company's board of directors and audit committee. He has served on the boards of Dance St. Louis, Junior Achievement and the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, and currently serves on the advisory committees for the Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, and the Center for Health Policy.

Education

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• Ph D 1990, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
• MS 1981, Carnegie Mellon University - GSIA
• BS 1978, Bombay University

Academic/Professional Activities

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Editorial Review Board Member, The Accounting Review; The Journal of Management Accounting Research; Accounting Horizons; International Journal of Applied Quality Management

Awards/Honors

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• Dissertation Fellowship Award, Digital Equipment Corporation and Center for Integrated Systems
• Reid Teaching Award - Executive MBA , Olin Business School, 2018
• Reid Teaching Award - Executive MBA Shanghai, Olin Business School, 2017
• Marcile & James Reid Professorship , Washington University Olin School of Business, 1996
• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, American Accounting Association Management Accounting Section, 1991

Teaching Interests

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Accounting - Managerial Accounting; Economics - Health Economics; Information Technology; Management Science - Decision Analysis; Management Strategy; Marketing - Marketing Management and Strategy; Technology Management

Research Interests

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Managerial accounting, strategic cost management and control

Selected Publications

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• "Internal Controls, Decentralization, and Performance", 39-65, with Richard Palmer, A. Davila, 2018
• "Understanding Customer Level Profitability Implications of Satisfaction Programs", Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Issue 7, with Rakesh Niraj, George Foster, Chakravarthi Narasimhan, 2008
• "Implementing Card Technology in Government: Different Approaches, Different Outcomes", Transforming Government: People, Process and Technology, with Richard Palmer, James Brandt, 2021
• "Shifts in Payment Strategy to Support the “Stay-at-Home” Workforce During the Current Covid-19 Pandemic: Survey Results", Journal of Payment Strategy and Systems, Issue 4, 411-425, with Richard Palmer, James Brandt, 2021
• "Customer Profitability in a Supply Chain ", Journal of Marketing, Issue 3, with Rakesh Niraj, Chakravarthi Narasimhan, 2001
• "Estimation of Benchmark Performance Standards: An Application to Public School Expenditures", Journal of Accounting and Economics, Issue 2, with N Dopuch, 1997
• "The Emergence of Virtual Card Payments: Data Highlights in North American Commercial Payment Practices", Journal of Payment Strategy and Systems, Issue 2, 194-204, with Richard Palmer, James Brandt, Nathan Palmer, 2016
• "Product Cost Information & Cost-Based: An Experimental Investigation", Contemporary Accounting Research, with Ronald King, 1997
• "The Use and Impact of Dynamically Adjustable Purchasing Cards on the Procurement Process: Survey Evidence", Cost Management, 18-28, with Richard Palmer, James Brandt, 2014
• "Moving Procurement Systems to the Internet: The Adoption and Use of E-Procurement Technology Platforms", European Management Journal, with Richard Palmer, A. Davila, 2003