Mary Ellen Carter, PhD
Associate Professor - Accounting Department
Mary Ellen Carter is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Carroll School of Management of Boston College. She has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Babson College, an MBA from Boston College, and a Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Before joining the faculty at Boston College, she was an Assistant Professor at the Columbia Business School of Columbia University and at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a CPA and, prior to her academic career, worked for Coopers and Lybrand in Boston as a senior audit associate.
Professor Carter studies the effects of financial reporting and regulation on incentives and executive compensation. Her recent research includes investigations of the effect of stock-option repricing on employee turnover, the role of accounting and tax rules in shaping executive compensation, and the influence of consultants on CEO pay.
Her research has been published in leading academic journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, the Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. In addition, her research has been featured in Forbes and other business media.
Carroll School of Management
Fulton 538
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
maryellen.carter.1@bc.edu
617-552-2144
website: http://www2.bc.edu/~carterma