Teaching and research interests
Professor Melumad specializes in management control systems and performance measurement. His research and consulting focus on controllership, performance measurement, incentives, organization design, compensation, corporate fraud, costing and pricing. He has taught the core courses on financial accounting and managerial accounting, as well as an elective on strategic management control. He is the recipient of the 2005 Columbia Business School Annual Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in MBA/EMBA Core Class. He is also a corecipient of the 2004 Chazen Research Prize and the 1996 Chazen International Teaching Innovation Prize.
Melumad serves on the editorial board of the Review of Accounting Studies. He has published numerous articles in academic and professional journals. From 1984 to 1993, he was a faculty member at Stanford Business School. He has served as a consultant to a number of large companies, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, (the former) Chemical Bank, CountryWide Financial, GE, GE Capital and Morgan Stanley. He is also a codirector of the Columbia Executive Education/NYSE Program for directors of public companies Accounting Essentials for Corporate Directors: Enhancing Financial Integrity.
