Bio:

Mary Ellen Carter has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Babson College, an MBA from Boston College, and a Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.  Before joining the faculty at Boston College, she was an assistant professor at the Columbia Business School of Columbia University and at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  She is a CPA and, prior to her academic career, she worked for Coopers & Lybrand in Boston as a senior associate on the audit staff.

Professor Carter studies the effects of financial reporting and regulation on incentives and executive compensation. Recent research includes gender pay gaps, labor market pressures on compensation and the influence of compensation consultants on CEO pay. She has published in top academic journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. In addition, she has been featured in Forbes and the Financial Times, as well as other business media. She is currently an editor at The Accounting Review and associate editor at Management Science.