Kashi R. Balachandran

Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Operations Management
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
New York City, New York, USA

Distinguished Professor

G. D. Goenka World Institute

Delhi, India

Biography

Bala K. R. Balachandran is a professor emeritus of accounting and operations management at New York University Stern School of Business, Editor in Chief of Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. He is currently Distinguished Institute Professor of G.D. Goenka World Institute where he advises the management on strategic development of the institute. He is also a Chair Professor of Accounting at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He is an organizing member of the Taiwan- Italy Internship Program in its second year of operation and the China- Italy Internship program, for students from Taiwan and China to serve in Italian companies as interns.

Professor Balachandran joined Stern in 1979. His primary areas of research include optimal operation of service systems, incentive contracts and mechanisms, transfer pricing determinations, conceptualization of unused capacities and their optimal utilization, warranty contracts, quality enhancement programs and reporting, activity based costing systems, business measurement systems and optimal performance evaluations. In addition, he has contributed to sustainable business development, global warming research and management educational process. Professor Balachandran has written and published more than 75 articles in leading academic journals of economics, accounting, operations research and management science. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance and the Senior Consulting Editor of Journal of Applied Management Accounting. In addition to serving on the editorial boards of several journals, he has refereed for numerous journals and research funding agencies. He has organized numerous conferences and symposiums for JAAF in New York and Europe. As the organizer of the annual KPMG/JAAF conference in New York, he coordinates with KPMG on their funding for the conference. He is on the staff of Ross Institute of Accounting Research at New York University that develops liaison with Industry.

Before joining Stern, Professor Balachandran taught at the University of Wisconsin, the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Kentucky, and has been a frequent visiting professor of management control and performance measurement at SDA Bocconi University, Italy, visiting professor at University of Rome-Tor Vergata and International University of Japan. He is also a Chair Professor at Tunghai University and a regular participating professor for the Italian Summer School for doctoral students from around the world. He has served as the associate director of the Ross Institute of Accounting Research and doctoral program director of accounting at New York University and a member of the Wisconsin Governor’s Commission on Education. He has lectured internationally in the United States, Europe and Asia in several conferences and universities. He served as a member of the Asian American Advisory Council to the Governor’s office in New Jersey and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Indian Institute of Finance Business School in India. He has given executive seminars at the Stern School of Business and internationally on Information Analysis for Managerial Decision Making and related topics.

Professor Balachandran earned his Bachelor of Engineering (with honors) in Mechanical Engineering from University of Madras, India; Master of Science in industrial engineering and Doctor of Philosophy in operations research from the University of California, Berkeley and his certificate in management accounting from the Institute of Management Accountants.