Amy Hutton Expert Associate Professor, Boston College

Dr. Hutton is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Previously she was an Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, and a visiting professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Hutton's research areas include: effective corporate disclosure strategies; policy changes in response to Regulation Fair Disclosure and Sarbanes-Oxley; the role of reputation building involuntary corporate disclosures; and the roles of capital market intermediaries and regulators in determining market values of company stocks.

Professor Hutton was named to the Congressional review board opining on the Securities Industry Association's "best practices for equity research". In June 2003, she was elected to the board of directors of Bandag, Inc. where she serves on the Audit and Governance and Nominating Committees, and in May 2005, she was appointed chairman of the Audit Committee. She also serves on the Advisory Board and the Audit and Finance Committee of the National Industries of the Blind.

Dr. Hutton is well published and her work has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Accounting Studies, the Harvard Business Review, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. She serves as a referee for the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, and was a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Accounting Review from 1994 to 1998.

Dr. Hutton holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration and a M.B.A from the University of Rochester.