Robert Bowen

Herbert O. Whitten Professor of Accounting
PhD Stanford University 1978
MBA Washington University 1971
AB Drury College 1968

PHONE: 206.543.4569
rbowen@u.washington.edu
http://us.badm.washington.edu/bowen/

Professor Bowen teaches courses in financial reporting and managerial accounting. He has written a number of widely used cases and has earned over 30 teaching awards, including one from every graduating Executive MBA class since 1987. After visiting INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) in Winter 2001, he received the Best Core Teacher award from the December 2001 graduating class.

Professor Bowen's research has garnered two national awards. His papers have appeared in journals such as the The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. A number have been highly cited and one has been labeled a "classic" in the accounting literature. He is currently ranked among the "Top 100" authors (out of over 44,000) in papers downloaded from the Social Science Research Network. His current research interests include corporate governance, disclosure policies, earnings management, and the stock-price-relevance of financial and non-financial data. His co-authored work includes studies of the value-relevance of alternative earnings metrics such as "economic value added" (EVA). His work has been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and CFO Magazine. Bowen is currently a member of the Editorial Board of The Accounting Review and is an ad hoc referee for several academic journals. His Ph.D. students started their careers at schools such as UC–Irvine, Harvard, Michigan, USC, UT—Dallas, and Washington University.

Professor Bowen represented the Business School in the design phase for a new library and executive education center completed in 1997. He has served as faculty director for the Executive MBA program and helped design the distance-learning version of that program.

updated: April 2005