text_combined: bios mit participants vince bios mit participants arrive see amy donald r lessard deputy dean epoch foundation professor international management office e 52 474 tel 617 253 6688 lessard current research focused shaping managing risks large engineering projects globalization financial services knowledge development within multinational firms deputy dean lessard coordinates sloan research centers provides faculty leadership international initiatives institutional partnerships executive education international initiatives include joint programs tsinghua fudan universities lingnan university college china well programs taiwan singapore lessard also faculty director mit wide partnership merrill lynch mit general expertise international corporate strategy finance p kothari gordon billard professor accounting finance office e 52 325 tel 617 253 0994 kothari editor journal accounting economics research work widely published leading accounting finance journals past research focused relation financial information security prices accounting executive stock options tests security price performance market efficiency corporate uses derivatives hedging speculation issues surrounding executive compensation recent published research includes relation earnings cash flows patty dechow ross watts journal accounting market based evaluation discretionaryaccrual models wayne guay ross l watts journal accounting research 1996 another look cross section expected returns jay shanken richard sloan journal finance 1995 measuring long horizon security price performance jerold b warner journal financial economics 1997 general expertise accounting india stock trading