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Jacob Thomas recently joined the Yale School of Management. Before that he was the Ernst &Young Professor of Accounting and Finance at Columbia. His prior experience includes teaching at the University of Rochester, advising clients as a consultant with Ernst and Whinney, and designing process plants with Engineers (India) Limited. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, an MBA (with distinction) from ICMS, and a B.Tech. (with distinction) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Jake is an award-winning teacher who has developed and delivered a variety of MBA, Ph.D., and executive education courses in accounting and finance. Over the last decade, he has focused on valuation issues, bringing to class the latest research findings.

Jakeˇ¦s research has investigated questions in accounting, tax, and corporate finance relating to options, pensions, leases, quality of accounting disclosures, and cost allocation. His recent work has considered topics in valuation, including ways of estimating the equity risk premium, the use of multiples for valuation, and building trading rules using accounting information. He has won a number of awards and grants for his research.

In his spare time, Jake rides a road bike and plays tennis.

 
Shyam Sunder is James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Yale School of Management where he teaches MBA, executive, and PhD courses. He previously served on the faculties of Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Chicago.

He is a world-renowned accounting theorist and experimental economist, having published five books and more than a hundred research articles in scholarly journals of accounting, economics and finance. His research interests include financial reporting, statistical theory of valuation, economic theory of accounting and organizations, dissemination of information in security markets, design of electronic markets, experimental exploration of learning and expectations in monetary economies, minimal rationality economics, and Japanese business and accounting.

He has received many awards for his research and teaching, and has delivered more than three hundred invited lectures at universities around the world. He was trained as an engineer in India and received his MBA and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.