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Mahendra R. Gupta


Dean and Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and Management


Areas of Expertise:

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

Research interests:

Managerial accounting, strategic cost management and control

Selected Publications:

To view publications by this professor, visit the Publications and Working Papers section of our site.

Academic/professional activities:

Editorial Boards: The Accounting Review; The Journal of Management Accounting Research; Accounting Horizons; International Journal of Applied Quality Management

Awards/honors:

Marcile and James Reid Professor, 1996-1997
Awarded First Place in Doctoral Dissertation Competition by AAA, 1991
Dissertation Fellowship Award from Digital Equipment Corporation and Center for Integrated Systems

Personal interests:

Professor Gupta enjoys reading, cooking, and movies. He is married to Sunita and has two children, Vivek and Sumi.

Mahendra R. Gupta

  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 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.

Email: guptam@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-6344

Ph.D. 1990, Stanford University
M.S. 1981, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. 1978, Bombay University