Decision Making Orientation

Anthony A. Atkinson

Anthony Atkinson holds a professional teaching position in Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis School of Business & Economics.

Anthony Atkinson holds a professional teaching position in Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis School of Business & Economics. Tony earned a bachelor of commerce and M.B.A. degrees from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial administration from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Atkinson is a fellow (FCPA) of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA Ontario) and has written or coauthored three texts, five monographs on management accounting practice, a volume of management accounting standards for CMA Ontario (now CPA Ontario), and more than 35 articles on performance measurement and costing. In 1989, the Canadian Academic Accounting Association awarded Atkinson the Haim Falk Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought. He has served on the editorial boards of two professional and five academic journals and is a past editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. Atkinson also served as a member of the Canadian government’s Cost Standards Advisory Committee, for which he developed the costing principles it now requires of government contractors.

Robert S. Kaplan

Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, where he has taught for 35 years.

Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, where he has taught for 35 years. Previously, he served on the faculty and as Dean of the Tepper Business School at Carnegie-Mellon University. Kaplan received a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University, and several honorary doctorates from international universities.

Kaplan is co-creator of both activity-based costing and the balanced scorecard (BSC). He currently works on the Harvard Business School Value Based Health Care initiative, introducing time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) and value-based bundled payments to health care. He is also applying his BSC strategy execution framework to help corporations develop profit-making strategies that mitigate societal problems of environmental degradation, poverty, and inequality.

Kaplan has done extensive writing, teaching, and consulting on linking cost and performance management systems to strategy implementation. His 14 authored or co-authored books have won numerous prizes and been translated into 28 languages. He has published nearly 200 papers including 27 in Harvard Business Review. Kaplan was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2006 and received the Lifetime Contribution Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association in January 2006. In 2008, his co-authored book, Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting, received the AAA Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature Award. His articles and books have also been recognized with several Wildman Medal and AAA Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Awards. 

Ella Mae Matsumura

Ella Mae Matsumura is the Robert and Monica Beyer Professor of Accounting and also Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ella Mae Matsumura is the Robert and Monica Beyer Professor of Accounting and also Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She serves on the Executive Committee of the university’s Center for Quick Response Manufacturing (which analyzes manufacturing and nonmanufacturing organizational processes) in the College of Engineering. She received an A.B. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia. Matsumura has won two teaching excellence awards at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was elected as a lifetime fellow of the university’s
Teaching Academy, formed to promote effective teaching.

Professor Matsumura was a co-winner of the 2010 Notable Contributions to Management Accounting Literature Award (with Jae Yong Shin) and the 2019 Best Journal of Management Accounting Research Paper Award (with Jason Schloetzer). She has served in numerous leadership positions in the American Accounting Association (AAA), including secretary–treasurer and president of the AAA’s Management Accounting Section. She was coeditor of Accounting Horizons and has chaired and served on numerous AAA committees. She currently serves on the editorial boards of several accounting journals. Her past and current research articles focus on decision making, performance evaluation, compensation, supply chain relationships, sustainability, and creativity. She coauthored a monograph on customer profitability analysis in credit unions.

S. Mark Young

S. Mark Young holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports and Entertainment Business at the University of Southern California. Dr. Young is also a Professor of Accounting in the Leventhal School of Accounting and holds joint appointments as Professor of Management and Organization in the Marshall School of Business, and Professor of Communication and Journalism in the Annenberg School of Communication.

S. Mark Young holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports and Entertainment Business at the University of Southern California. Dr. Young is also a Professor of Accounting in the Leventhal School of Accounting and holds joint appointments as Professor of Management and Organization in the Marshall School of Business, and Professor of Communication and Journalism in the Annenberg School of Communication. He was also a Special Term Professor at Peking University. Professor Young received an A.B. from Oberlin College (Economics), an M. Acc. from the Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. (Accounting) from the University of Pittsburgh.

Young has won the Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award three times (with F. Selto, S. Anderson and F. Du and G. Tang) and the Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award (with S. Anderson). In addition he has won several teaching awards at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has consulted with numerous companies. He has been interviewed in the media most notably by the BBC’s Newsday, The View, The Howard Stern Show, ABC News, The Economist, Financial Times, the New York Times, The Guardian and National Public Radio.

Professor Young has also written two other books on popular culture including The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (with D. Pinsky), which was a New York Times Best Seller and Trojan Tennis—A History of the Storied Men’s Tennis Team at the University of Southern California.