Professor Erik Olson is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado.
Named to the Poets & Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors and Marquis Magazine’s “Who’s Who in America” in 2024, Professor Erik Olson’s research primarily focuses on the impact of financial accounting and disclosure on firm capital allocation decisions. Specific topics include:
-Real Effects of Accounting
-Institutional vs Retail Investors
-Corporate Finance
-Options Markets
-Corporate Governance
-Financial Accounting
-Disclosure
-Taxation
He earned his PhD in Management with a specialization in Financial Accounting from the Yale School of Management in May 2020.
He’s an award winning teacher, and currently teaches Corporate Financial Reporting I at the University of Colorado Boulder. He won the “Thanks Teach” award for Teaching Excellence in 2021, as voted on by the full cohort of Vanderbilt MBA students in the classes of 2021 and 2022.