Ranjani Krishnan

Ernest W. & Robert W. Schaberg Endowed Chair in Accounting, Michigan State University

Ranjani Krishnan is the Ernest W. & Robert W. Schaberg Endowed Chair in Accounting at The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, at Michigan State University (MSU). Ranjani’s research focuses on issues related to cost behavior, control systems design, governance, and performance measurement. Her research also examines health cost, health quality, and health policy. Her research has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, Decision Sciences, Information Systems Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Science, Management Accounting Research, Production and Operations Management, Strategic Management Journal, and The Accounting Review.  She is the recipient of the 2015 Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2013 Best Paper Award of the Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2012 Management Accounting Section’s Greatest Impact on Practice Award, the 2006 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Research Award from the American Accounting Association, the 2005 Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award, and the 1999 McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics. She has won MSU’s Beal Distinguished University Professor Award, nine college and university-level teaching awards, and was featured as one of the country’s top-10 Executive MBA professors in the Poets and Quants Periodical. She was the editor of The Accounting Review (2008-2011), and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Management Accounting Research (2012-2015). She is currently the Department Editor of Management Science (2021-), and editor of Accounting Horizons (2022 -), Accounting, Organizations and Society (2016-), and Production and Operations Management (2021-).