Recent Media Mentions

• How companies avoid paying overtime in the US?, Forbes Feb. 8, 2024

• How the pay gap between employees and CEOs impacts workers, according to experts. Fast Company, Sept. 13, 2023

• Unearthing the negative consequences of managing to quarterly earnings. UCLA Anderson Review, May 24, 2023

• Manager titles allegedly given to workers to avoid overtime pay. NBC News, Apr. 28, 2023

• You are now a “manager.” Forget about overtime pay. New York Times, Mar. 6, 2023

• Too many managers, Harvard Law School Forum, Mar. 6, 2023

• The dying practice of time and a half, New York Times, Feb. 1, 2023

• Title inflation eats into workers' overtime, research shows, Law360.com, Feb. 1, 2023

• Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake "manager" titles, study shows, CBS, Feb. 1, 2023

• How do some executives pay taxes? By selling stock with insider information, study suggests, Forbes, Jan. 30, 2023

• Whip inflation with title inflation, The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 12, 2023

• More employers using overtime loophole to pay people less. Time Magazine, Jan. 12, 2023

• Before accepting 'manager' in your title, make sure it's not just a way for your company to avoid paying you overtime. Business Insider, Jan. 12, 2023.

• Phony managerial positions created to avoid overtime pay, new study shows. Gizmodo.com, Jan. 12, 2023

• Could you be losing money with a manager title?, Quartz, Jan. 11, 2023

• New study shows companies use manager titles as a clever way to pay employees less. Inc.com, Jan 11, 2023

• Employers skirt $4 billion in overtime pay with fake job titles. Bloomberg Law, Jan 10, 2023

• From shampoo manager to director of first impressions: Bogus and inflated job titles are costing workers $4 billion in overtime every year, study finds, Fortune, Jan 10, 2023

• Bosses give workers bullshit ‘manager’ titles to avoid paying overtime: Study, Vice.com, Jan. 10, 2023

• Your fancy new manager title might be your boss’s way to avoid paying you overtime. Bloomberg, Jan 10,2023

• Companies hand out dubious job titles to avoid paying $4 billion in overtime. Observer.com, Jan 9, 2023

• Giving Credit to New Alpha Strategies, S&P Market Intelligence, December 15, 2021

• When Will Taxes Go Up?, New York Times, January 22, 2021

• How Firms Use Pre-IPO Confidentiality to Fend Off Lawsuits, Knowledge at Wharton, August 24, 2020

• Does Reducing Disclosure Mean Fewer Pre-IPO Lawsuits?, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, June 12, 2020

Recognition

• American Accounting Association FARS Outstanding Service Award, 2024

• American Accounting Association FARS Best Paper Award, 2022

• American Accounting Association FARS Best Midyear Meeting Paper Award Honorable Mention, 2022

• Financial Management Association Best Corporate Finance Paper Award Semi-Finalist, 2021

• Best 40 Professors under 40 by Poets & Quants, 2021

• The Wharton School, Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021

• The Wharton School, Excellence in Teaching Award, 2020

• Jindal School Faculty Idol of the Year Finalist, 2019

• Hakan Orbay Young Researcher Award, 2016

• AFBC Zephyr Award for Best Corporate Finance Paper, 2014

• UCLA Anderson, Dean George W. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award,  2014