Fabrizio Ferri

Biography

Fabrizio Ferri joined Columbia Business School's faculty in 2011. He teaches the Financial Planning and Analysis course in the MBA as well as Ph.D. seminars on executive pay and corporate governance. Professor Ferri's research interests focus primarily on corporate governance issues, with particular emphasis on shareholder activism and executive compensation. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Review of Finance, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. Media mentions to note include The New York Times, Business Week, Forbes, Barron's, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Financial Times and CFO Magazine. Professor Ferri has received an award for Best Paper at the John L. Weinberg Center Corporate Governance Symposium in 2012 and 2015, the AAA Management Accounting Section 2009 Conference and the 2007 Eastern Finance Association Conference. He is currently an editor for the Contemporary Accounting Research journal and serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review, the Journal of Management Accounting Research and the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting. For the last four years, he has been in charge of the Ph.D. Program for the Accounting division. Professor Ferri earned a B.S. cum laude in Economics and Business Administration from La Sapienza Rome University, and an MBA and Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business (New York University). Prior to joining Columbia, he was a member of the faculty at Harvard Business School and Stern School of Business, teaching financial and managerial accounting to undergraduate, MBA and executive students, and worked as a consultant at Stern Stewart & Co, specializing in performance measurement and executive pay.

Research Interest

Accounting, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation