Vince: bios from MIT participants did arrive --- see below. Amy 


Donald R.Lessard
Deputy Dean; Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management
Office E52-474 
Tel 617-253-6688 
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Lessard's current research is focused on the shaping and managing of risks in 
large engineering projects, the globalization of financial services, and 
knowledge development within multinational firms. As Deputy Dean, Lessard 
coordinates Sloan's research centers and provides faculty leadership for its 
international initiatives, institutional partnerships and executive 
education. The international initiatives include joint programs with Tsinghua 
and Fudan Universities and Lingnan (University) College in China, as well as 
programs in Taiwan and Singapore. Lessard is also the faculty director for 
the MIT-wide partnership between Merrill Lynch and MIT.

General Expertise International corporate strategy and finance 



S.P. Kothari
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance
Office E52-325 
Tel 617-253-0994 
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Kothari is an editor of the Journal of Accounting & Economics, and his 
research work has been widely published in leading accounting and finance 
journals. Past research has focused on the relation between financial 
information and security prices, accounting for executive stock options, 
tests of security-price performance and market efficiency, corporate uses of 
derivatives for hedging and speculation, and issues surrounding executive 
compensation. Recent published research includes: "The Relation Between 
Earnings and Cash Flows" (with Patty Dechow and Ross Watts), Journal of 
Accounting & Economics; "A Market-Based Evaluation of DiscretionaryAccrual 
Models" (with Wayne Guay and Ross L. Watts), Journal of Accounting Research, 
1996; "Another Look at the Cross-Section of Expected Returns" (with Jay 
Shanken and Richard Sloan), Journal of Finance, 1995; and "Measuring 
Long-Horizon Security Price Performance" (with Jerold B. Warner), Journal of 
Financial Economics, 1997.

General Expertise Accounting, India, stock trading