Professor Mary Ellen Carter is the Joseph L. Sweeney Chair in Accounting at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. She holds a BS from Babson College, an MBA from Boston College, and a PhD from MIT's Sloan School of Management. A CPA with prior audit experience at Coopers & Lybrand, she focuses on financial reporting, executive compensation, and corporate governance. Her research explores gender pay gaps, labor market pressures on compensation, and the role of compensation consultants. Her work has been published in top journals like Journal of Accounting and Economics and Journal of Financial Economics , and featured in Forbes , Financial Times , and New York Times . She currently serves as Editor of The Accounting Review and Associate Editor of Management Science . Notable awards include the Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award (2019) and Ernst & Young Faculty Fellowship (2021-2022). Professor Carter teaches intermediate accounting and has held faculty positions at Columbia Business School and Wharton School. Her research trends emphasize real-world impacts of accounting policies, regulatory changes, and labor market dynamics. Recent studies address pandemic-driven compensation shifts and ESG-related governance mechanisms.












