• Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Managerial Accounting, Olin Business School

Mahendra Gupta

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• Ph.D. at Stanford University
• M.S. at Carnegie Mellon University
• B.S. at Bombay University

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WUSTL business school forms alliance with top management school in India Olin expands its international connections May 30, 2008 -- The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) announce a new partnership designed to advance research, teaching and cultural understanding. The agreement facilitates the creation of joint publications, conferences and research projects. It also establishes new and innovative exchange programs for faculty and students.

Olin Business School to present distinguished alumni awards Annual event includes presentation of the Olin Award April 23, 2008 -- The Olin Business School is honoring three alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Dean's Medal on Thursday, April 24, 2008, at its annual dinner at the Ritz-Carlton St. Louis in Clayton. Mahendra Gupta, dean of the business school, will also present the winners of the Olin Award, a new award that recognizes the practical impact of Olin's academic research.

Sometimes the customer is not always right Accommodating clients too much could hurt business March 2, 2005 -- There are times when bending over backwards to make customers happy won't result in better profits; in fact, it could cause a drop in profits. Unprofitable customers show up in every industry, causing companies to reconsider the value of customer service and to even consider "firing" those customers that cause the most loss.

New professorship New Virgil Professorship in business established by friends May 17, 2004 -- In honor of a very special couple, $1.5 million has been raised by friends and colleagues to establish the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professorship in Accounting and Management in Washington University's John M. Olin School of Business. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the gift, which includes $300,000 from the University's Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge. Mahendra Gupta, Ph.D., professor of accounting in the John M. Olin School of Business, will be appointed as the first holder in a ceremony planned for later this year.

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Students return to class, this time as consultants for urban schools Wall Street Journal June 15, 2005 -- MBA students at Columbia University have taken on one of the most daunting of management challenges -- not General Motors, not Morgan Stanley, not American International Group. Their classroom for the spring semester was New York City's mammoth public-school system, which serves 1.1 million children with decidedly mixed results. Columbia isn't the first business school to tackle urban schools. WUSTL business school dean Stuart Greenbaum created a program in the late 1990s to share graduate students and undergraduates with local public schools. He says he hasn't always found it an easy sell.

B-School deans: back to basics MSNBC.com and 1 others May 9, 2005 -- In the tough post-corporate-scandal era, respected academics have been picked instead of prominent business names to head MBA programs. Typical of the new breed is WUSTL accounting and management professor Mahendra Gupta, who is WUSTL's new business school dean. Far from talking about making expensive new additions to the school's facilities or raising tons of new money, his main focus will be nuts-and-bolts improvements, with a heavy emphasis on academics.

Areas of Expertise: Economics of health care; Accounting — Managerial Accounting; Economics — Health Economics; Information Technology; Management Science — Decision Analysis; Management Strategy; Marketing — Distribution Channels; Marketing — Marketing Management and Strategy; Services; Technology Management

Research interests: Managerial accounting, strategic cost management and control

Selected Publications:

• "Product Cost Information and Cost-Based Decisions: An Experimental Investigation," Contemporary Accounting Research, with R. King, 1997
• "Estimation of Benchmark Performance Standards," Journal of Accounting and Economics, with N. Dopuch, 1997
• "Customer Profitability Analysis," Journal of Cost Management, with G. Foster and L. Sjoblom, 1995
• "Aggregation, Specification and Measurement Errors in Product Costing," The Accounting Review, with S. Datar, 1994
• "Economic Effects of Production Changes: Accounting Implications," Journal of Management Accounting Research, with N. Dopuch, 1994

Academic/professional activities:

• Editorial Boards: The Accounting Review; The Journal of Management Accounting Research; Accounting Horizons; International Journal of Applied Quality Management

Awards/honors:

• Marcile and James Reid Professor, 1996-1997
• Awarded First Place in Doctoral Dissertation Competition by AAA, 1991
• Dissertation Fellowship Award from Digital Equipment Corporation and Center for Integrated Systems

Personal interests: Professor Gupta enjoys reading, cooking, and movies. He is married to Sunita and has two children, Vivek and Sumi.