His broad research interests focus on accounting choices that affect both the firm’s shareholders and other non-shareholder stakeholders with a vested interest in the firm’s outcome. These other stakeholders include the firm’s employees, customers and suppliers. He is a Louis O. Kelso Fellow, a Dean’s Award winner for Excellence in Teaching and a finalist for the 2009 Shared Capitalism through Employee Ownership Dissertation Award. He holds PhD and MBA degrees from Yale University and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Manitoba.