Mark W. Nelson
Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean
Professor of Accounting
Ph.D. in Accounting, Ohio State University
Research Interests:
Psychological and economic factors that influence how people make decisions, interpret and apply accounting, auditing, and tax regulations, and trade in financial markets
Mark W. Nelson is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell. He received his BBA degree from Iowa State University and his MA and PhD degrees from the Ohio State University.
Nelson's teaching focuses on corporate financial reporting and intermediate financial accounting at the MBA and undergraduate levels. He has received ten teaching awards, including Cornell's Apple Award for Teaching Excellence, the Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, and the inaugural Cook Prize for Graduate Teaching presented by the American Accounting Association. He is a coauthor (with Spiceland, Sepe, and Thomas) of a leading textbook, Intermediate Accounting.
Nelson's research examines psychological and economic factors that influence how people make decisions, interpret and apply accounting, auditing, and tax regulations, and trade in financial markets. His research has been published in scholarly journals in accounting and psychology, including the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. His research has been honored with the AAA's Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, the Deloitte Wildman Medal for research that is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of public accountancy, AJPT's inaugural Best Paper Award for research that makes an outstanding contribution to auditing research, and the Johnson's Faculty Research Award.
Nelson served for four years on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). He also served three terms as an area editor of The Accounting Review and as a member of the editorial boards of many accounting journals. He was Johnson's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2007–2010, overseeing the tenure-track faculty and research functions of the school.
We have absolutely excellent students who are progressing quickly in their careers.
And then we have really excellent faculty and staffs supporting the program.
This is actually the only program that I'm teaching a course in.
It's because I just very much want to be close to the students, and close to the curriculum.
These are great students, and I'm really really happy to have them part of the Johnson and part of the Cornell family.
I think of Cornell, I think of Johnson as a family.
We are community of people who have each other’s backs, but we also push each other forward.
We help each other accelerate their careers, we help each other be successful.
To people joining this program, just realize you are joining the Cornell family.
You are part of Johnson, and we will be very proud to name you as one of our MBA graduates.
