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Nate Sharp
Dean of Mays Business School
Personal details
Born (1977-03-14) March 14, 1977 (age 48)
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
EducationBrigham Young University (BS and MAcc) University of Texas at Austin (PhD)

Nate Sharp is an American scholar and academic who serves as the seventh dean of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.[1][2][3] He holds the Adam C. Sinn '00 Dean's Leadership Chair.

Early life and education

Sharp was born in Salt Lake City and grew up in Holladay, Utah. He graduated from Olympus High School in 1995 and attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Following a two-year volunteer church mission in South Korea,[4] Sharp graduated from BYU's Marriott School of Business with a bachelor's degree cum laude and a master's degree in accounting in 2002. He later received a doctorate in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business in 2007.[5]

Career

Sharp became an assistant professor of accounting at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School in 2007. He served as the PhD Program Coordinator in the James Benjamin Department of Accounting at Mays Business School. Later, following the retirement of long-time department head James Benjamin, Sharp was appointed as head of the James Benjamin Department of Accounting in 2020. Following a national search for the new dean of Mays Business School in 2022, Sharp was named as the new dean on December 13, 2022, and began serving as dean on February 1, 2023.[6]

Sharp's research encompasses corporate financial reporting, financial analysts, financial journalism, and financial misconduct. He received the 2021 Distinguished Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association.[7] He has been involved in discussions in financial media outlets The Wall Street Journal,[8] Financial Times,[9] CNBC, Forbes,[10] CFO.com,[11] and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.[12]

Sharp received a 2010 Texas A&M University System Teaching Excellence Award, the 2012-13 Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence Montague Scholar Award, the 2012 Ernst & Young Teaching Excellence Award, the 2015 Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, and the 2018 David and Denise Baggett Teaching Award.[citation needed]

Sharp was named a Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow in 2018.[13]

Personal life

Sharp married Holly Carroll in 2003 and they are the parents of five children. Sharp and his family are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Sharp has served as a bishop and stake president in the church[14]

References

  1. ^ Henton, Lesley (2022-12-13). "New Dean Of Mays Business School Named At Texas A&M University". Texas A&M Today. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  2. ^ "Texas A&M Mays Names New Dean". Poets & Quants. 2022-12-14.
  3. ^ "Nate Y. Sharp". Mays Business School. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  4. ^ "Nate Sharp: 'Miraculous events' led to conversion of Korean couple". Deseret News. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  5. ^ "Nate Sharp โ€“ MPA Admissions Blog". blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  6. ^ Henton, Lesley (2022-12-13). "New Dean Of Mays Business School Named At Texas A&M University". Texas A&M Today. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  7. ^ "Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement, and Nathan Y. Sharp to receive the American Accounting Association 2021 Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award". American Accounting Association. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  8. ^ Ensign, Rachel Louise (2014-10-28). "Firms Hit With Bigger Penalties When Whistleblowers Involved". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  9. ^ "Minority analysts get less time to probe management than white peers". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  10. ^ "New Research Shows Being Funny At Work Can Pay Off". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  11. ^ "The Regulator over Your Shoulder". CFO. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  12. ^ Call, Andrew; Brown, Lawrence; Clement, Michael; Sharp, Nathan (2018-10-23). "Managing the Narrative: Investor Relations Officers and Corporate Disclosure". The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  13. ^ "21 Texas A&M University Scholars Named 2018 Presidential Impact Fellows". Texas A&M Today. 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  14. ^ "Three new leaders for Brazos Valley area Mormon community". The Eagle. 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2023-12-21.