Teaching and research interests
Professor Ziv was on the faculty of Yale School of Organization and
Management, on the faculty of Columbia Business School and on the
faculty of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) (where he also
founded and headed the executive education unit) before rejoining
Columbia Business School as a Vice Dean and a Professor of
Accounting. Professor Ziv also serves on the editorial board of the
Review of Accounting Studies since 1997.
Professor Ziv teaches Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting in MBA, Executive
MBA, various Executive Education programs, and in Doctoral programs. He taught in Executive
Development programs for, among others, Goldman Sachs, Paine Webber, Philip Morris, and
Lafarge. His research deals with the effects of accounting regimes and alternatives on economic
environments, and is important to the understanding of accounting institutions and phenomena.
Specifically, he deals with the role of accounting information in organizational design, financial
disclosure, performance evaluation, auditing, product quality, and information transmission
among strategic players.
