Teaching and research interests
Professor Balachandran is interested in performance measurement, corporate governance and valuation. These three subjects are sometimes referred to collectively as shareholder value management. Specifically, he studies how firms use performance measures to align the interests of managers and shareholders and create shareholder value. Balachandran, who has more than 10 years of business experience, is a former management consultant at Ernst & Young and manager at Baxter Healthcare Corporation. He teaches the core course on managerial accounting, for which he was given the Dean's Award For Teaching Excellence in 2006.
