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Robert A. Howell

David T. McLaughlin D'54, T'55 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Business Administration

E-Mail: robert.a.howell@tuck.dartmouth.edu Phone:

BSEE, Bucknell University, 1960; MBA, University of Pennsylvania, 1962; DBA, Harvard University, 1966

Areas of expertise

Financial and managerial accounting, financial statement analysis, management control systems, strategic financial management, corporate strategy

Current research topics

Financial statements that drive value creation, strategic finance, the changing role of the CFO and the finance organization, corporate governance

Selected Publications

With J. Brown and A. Seed, Management Accounting in the New Manufacturing Environment, NAA, 1987; with J.K. Shank, S.R. Soucy, and J. Fisher, Cost Management for Tomorrow, FERF, 1992; "Management Accounting (and Other) Lessons from the Japanese," Management Accounting, December 1992; "Fixing Financial Reporting: Financial Statement Overhaul," Financial Executive, March/April 2002; "Tying Free Cash Flows to Market Valuations," Financial Executive, May/June 2002; "How Accounting Executives Looked the Wrong Way," Financial Times, August 13, 2002; "Turn Your Budgeting Process Upside Down," Harvard Business Review, July–August 2004; with P. Argenti and K. Beck, "The Strategic Communication Imperative," MIT Sloan Management Review, 46(3), Spring 2005; with W. Sinnett, "Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation: Practices of Leading Companies," FERF, May 2005; "The CFO: From Controller to Global Strategic Partner," Financial Executive, April 2006

Awards

RCA David Sarnoff Fellowship Award, 1963, 1964; John P. Stevens Award, Harvard University, 1964; Certificate in Management Accounting #19, 1973; NYU Excellence in Teaching Award, 1989; NYU Executive MBA Outstanding Teaching Award, 1994, 1995, 1999; Thunderbird Outstanding Teaching Award, 1996, 1997

Professional Activities

Academic positions: Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School, 1967–72; Clinical Professor of Management and Accounting, New York University, 1977– 95; Clinical Professor of Management Accounting, Thunderbird, Garvin School of International Management, 1995–98; Professor of Strategy, Finance, and Accounting, IMD International, 1999–2000; Tuck School of Business, 2000– present

Nonacademic positions: Vice President, Finance, Treasurer, and Director, General Housewares Corporation, 1973–75; Director, Premix, Inc., 1974–92; Senior Vice President, Finance, and Treasurer, Schick, Inc., 1975–76; Senior Partner, The Howell Group LLC, 1976–present

Board memberships: Trustee, Western Maryland College, 1989–98; Director, Center for Corporate Excellence, 2005–2007; Director, Spectra Group, Ltd., 2004–present

Editorial positions: Editorial Board, Financial Executive Magazine