Professor Hutton received her BA, MBA and PhD from the University of Rochester.

Before joining the faculty of the Carroll School, Hutton was an Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School, Harvard University.  Hutton also visited the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Specific research areas include effective corporate disclosure strategies, policy changes taken in response to Regulation Fair Disclosure and Sarbanes-Oxley, role of reputation building in voluntary corporate disclosures, and the roles of various capital market intermediaries and regulators in determining market values of company stocks. As a result of her research on financial analysts, Hutton was named to the Congressional review board opining on the Securities Industry Association’s ‘best practices for equity research.’ 

In June 2003, Hutton was elected to the board of directors of Bandag, Inc. where she serves on the Audit and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committees.  In May 2005 she was re-elected to Bandag’s board and appointed chairman of the Audit Committee.  Hutton also served on the Advisory Board and the Audit and Finance Committee of the National Industries of the Blind, 2002-2006.

Professor Hutton has published in the Journal of Accounting and
Economics, the Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of  Financial Economics, the Review of Accounting Studies, the Harvard Business Review, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.  She serves as a referee for the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, and has been named one of the incoming Editors of the Accounting Review, 2011-2014.

Selected publications include: with P. Dechow and R. Sloan, "An Empirical Assessment of the Residual Income Valuation Model," Journal of Accounting and Economics, January 1999; with P. Healy and K. Palepu, "Stock Performance and Intermediation Changes Surrounding Sustained Increases in Disclosure," Contemporary Accounting Research, Winter 1999; with P. Dechow and R. Sloan, "The Relation Between Analysts’ Long-Term Earnings Forecasts and Stock Price Performance Following Equity Offerings," Contemporary Accounting Research, Spring 2000; with P. Dechow, L. Meulbroek, and R. Sloan, "Short Sellers, Fundamental Analysis, and Stock Returns," Journal of Financial Economics, 2001; "Best Practice: Four Rules for Taking Your Message to Wall Street," Harvard Business Review, May 2001; with G. Miller and D. Skinner, "The Role of Supplementary Statements in the Disclosure of Management Earnings Forecasts," Journal of Accounting Research, 2003; with M. Barth, "Financial Analysts and the Pricing of Accruals," Review of Accounting Studies, 2004; "Beyond Financial Reporting—An Integrated Approach to Corporate Disclosure," Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 16(4), Fall 2004; “Determinants of Managerial Earnings Guidance Prior to Regulation Fair Disclosure and Bias in Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts,“ Contemporary Accounting Research, Winter 2005; with A. Marcus and H. Tehranian, “Opaque Financial Reports, R-square, and Crash Risk,” Journal of Financial Economics, October 2009.

Hutton teaches M.B.A. courses on Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation as well as Executive courses on Financial Reporting and Disclosure. 

Carroll School of Management
Fulton Hall 528B
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
amy.hutton.1@bc.edu
phone: 617-552-1951