Amir Ziv
Professor of Professional Practice
Accounting
BA, University of Haifa, 1984; CPA Examinations, Israel, 1985; MSc, joint program of University of Haifa and Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), 1986; PhD, Stanford, 1990
Joined CBS in 1994
Office:
523
Uris
Phone:
212-854-3485
E-mail:
az50@gsb.columbia.edu
Fax:
212-932-0545
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Professor Ziv was on the faculty of Yale School of Organization and Management, on the faculty of Columbia Business School and on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) (where he also founded and headed the executive education unit) before rejoining Columbia Business School as a Vice Dean and a Professor of Accounting. Professor Ziv also serves on the editorial board of the Review of Accounting Studies since 1997.
Professor Ziv teaches Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting in MBA, Executive MBA, various Executive Education programs, and in Doctoral programs. He taught in Executive Development programs for, among others, Goldman Sachs, Paine Webber, Philip Morris, and Lafarge. His research deals with the effects of accounting regimes and alternatives on economic environments, and is important to the understanding of accounting institutions and phenomena. Specifically, he deals with the role of accounting information in organizational design, financial disclosure, performance evaluation, auditing, product quality, and information transmission among strategic players.