Susan L. Kulp
Susan L. Kulp
Director, MBA Programs; Professor of Accountancy
Contact:
2201 G Street NW, Suite 604
Washington, DC 20052
Dr. Susan Kulp is a professor of accountancy and the director of MBA programs at the GW School of Business. She earned a bachelor’s degree in commerce from DePaul University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University.
Dr. Kulp is an expert in the area of management accounting and control, with a focus on performance measurement and incentive issues in interorganizational relationships. Her studies have been published in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Management Science.
Professor Kulp teaches primarily in the MBA program and the executive MBA program and is the director of both the Master of Accountancy program and the “Raising the Bar” program aimed at educating executive women in bio-tech about governance and executive management. Professor Kulp has developed many new courses and programs, including the core financial accounting and managerial accounting courses for the Online MBA program. Prior to joining the GWSB faculty as an assistant professor in 2007, Kulp spent eight years on the faculty of the Harvard Business School.
- Managerial Accounting
- Performance Measurement
- Incentives
- Supply Chain Management
- Ph.D., Stanford University Graduate School of Business
- M.B.A., The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- B.S., DePaul University
- “Do governments hide resources from unions? The influence of public sector unions on reported discretionary fund balance ratios” (with Angela Gore and Yuan Ji), Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 61, Issue 5 (2023).
- “Compensation Design and Political Risk: The Case of City Managers,” (with Angela Gore and Ying Compton), Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 1 (2017).
- “Testing Business Strategy with Nonfinancial Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24,” (with Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar and V.G. Narayanan), Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2015). Winner of the 2018 Journal of Management Accounting Research Best Paper Award.
- “Durability, Transit Lags and Optimality of Inventory Management Decisions,” (with Robert Bloomfield), Production and Operations Management, Special Issue on Retail Operations, Vol. 22, Issue 4 (July-August 2013).
- “The Use of Contract Adjustments to Lengthen the CEO Horizon in the Presence of Internal and External Monitoring,” (with Shane S. Dikolli and Karen L. Sedatole), Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 25 (2013). Winner of the 2014 Journal of Management Accounting Research Best Paper Award.
- “Interrelated Performance Measures, Interactive Effort and Incentive Weights,” (with Shane S. Dikolli and Christian Hofmann), Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 21 (2009). Winner of the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award in 2014 and the 2012 Journal of Management Accounting Research Best Paper Award.
- “Transient Institutional Ownership and CEO Contracting,” (with Shane S. Dikolli and Karen L. Sedatole), The Accounting Review, Vol. 84, No. 3 (May 2009).
- “Using Organizational Control Mechanisms to Enhance Procurement Efficiency: How GlaxoSmithKline Improved the Effectiveness of E-Procurement,” (with Taylor Randall, Gregg Brandyberry, and Kevin Potts). Interfaces, Vol. 36, No. 3 (May-June 2006).
- “Manufacturer Benefits from Information Integration with Retail Customers,” (with Hau Lee and Elie Ofek). Management Science, Vol. 50, No. 4 (April 2004).
- “The Effect of Information Precision and Information Reliability on Manufacturer-Retailer Relationships,” The Accounting Review, Vol. 77, No. 3 (July 2002).
- “Balancing Performance Measures,” (with Srikant Datar and Richard A. Lambert). Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 39, No. 1 (June 2001).
- Doctoral Seminar in Accounting
- Managerial Accounting
- Financial Accounting