Ramji Balakrishnan

Ramji Balakrishnan is the Sidney Winter Professor in Accounting at the Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa. He holds a PhD in Accounting from Columbia University, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a BS in Statistics from the University of Madras.

Research Interests:

• Managerial accounting with a focus on incentive design and performance measurement
• Healthcare cost analysis and risk adjustment models
• Capacity planning under uncertainty
• Institutional pressures on financial decision-making
• Cost stickiness and resource allocation in multi-task environments

Scientific Awards:

• Executive MBA GREAT Instructor of the Year (2023)

Selected Presentations:

• "CEO overconfidence, Moral Hazard and Investment Efficiency" at American Accounting Association (2021)
• "The effect of Institutional pressures on Revenue forecasts" at AAA - JMAR (2020)