Dr. Michael Williams
Dr. Williams attended the University of Southern California and received a Ph.D. in Business in 1996. He attended Princeton University where he additionally earned a Ph.D. in Economics in 1992. He received a B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1989.
Dr. Williams is responsible for over-seeing the Company's various research initiatives and is a contributor to the firm's expertise in forensic accounting, earnings quality, qualitative and quantitative research, modeling, and consulting. He is Senior Editor to Earnings Quality Analytics. Williams provides expertise for many of Gradient's product development initiatives, with oversight responsibility principally for the Company's financial services sector and global research products.
Before joining Gradient, Dr. Williams was an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon, Lundquist College of Business. Previously he was a Visiting Professor at the Yale University School of Management and an Assistant Professor at the UCLA, Anderson Graduate School of Management. Prior to that, Dr. Williams was a Lecturer at the UCLA, Anderson Graduate School of Management as well as an Instructor at the University of Southern California, School of Accounting. He was also a Research Associate at the Milken Institute for Job & Capital Formation. Williams has experience as a Financial Economist for the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as a Staff Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, White House.
Dr. Williams has taught courses that include Introduction to Federal Taxation (Undergraduate), Accounting: Language of Business Decisions (Undergraduate), Financial Accounting Theory I (Undergraduate), and Tax Factors in Business Decisions (MBA), Taxes and Management Decisions (MBA), Special Topics in Management: Strategic Tax Considerations in Business Planning (MBA), Tax Principles and Policy (Undergraduate), Corporate and Partnership Taxation (Undergraduate), Management Accounting (Undergraduate), Core Concepts of Accounting Information (Undergraduate).
