Charles C.Y. Wang

Biography

Charles C.Y. Wang is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and an associate editor of Management Science and Journal of Accounting Research, two leading management journals. His research and teaching focus on corporate governance and valuation.

He is currently course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum; he is also a coordinator of the school's doctoral program, for which he has taught doctoral courses in financial reporting and corporate governance and applied econometrics as well as served on numerous dissertation committees. His teaching also included Business Analysis and Valuation in the MBA elective curriculum and Strategic Financial Analysis in executive education.

Professor Wang's research in corporate governance and valuation has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Accounting Review as well as practitioner publications such as Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe. Media outlets including The Economist, Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, U.S. News, and The Atlantic have cited his research findings. His work has also been cited in legal proceedings and policy discussions, including the council of economic advisor's economic report to the president and congressional testimonies. Professor Wang's research has won several awards, including the Jensen Prize for the Best Paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Financial Economics and the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute's Annual Investor Research Award.