Kristy Towry

Kristy L. Towry is Professor Emerita at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, where she served as Vice Dean of Faculty and Research, John and Lucy Cook Chair and Professor of Accounting. Prof. Towry joined the Goizueta Business School faculty in 2002, after receiving her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. She has extensive experience in managerial accounting and finance, including a number of positions at Fortune 100 firms. Prof. Towry's research relates to the use of accounting information for managerial decision making, with a focus on managerial control systems and financial incentives. Her research, based on the experimental method, blends theory from economics, psychology, and other social sciences to provide insights into accounting issues. She has published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and other accounting and economics journals. She has served in a number of leadership positions, most notably chair of the Faculty Executive Committee at the Goizueta Business School and President of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. Prof. Towry has been recognized with the Notable Contributions to the Management Accounting Literature Award, the Donald R. Keough Award for Service, the Glen McLaughlin Award for Research in Accounting Ethics, the Best Early Career Researcher in Management Accounting Award, the Management Accounting Best Dissertation Award, and a number of teaching awards.