Fabrizio Ferri joined the Harvard Business School faculty in the Summer of 2004. He teaches the first-year MBA course, Financial Reporting and Control, and a doctoral seminar on performance measurement. His research investigates a number of corporate governance issues, with a special focus on executive compensation practices, the role of boards of directors and the effectiveness of shareholders’ activism. Native of Rome, Italy, he received a B.S. in Economics from Universita’ La Sapienza (Rome) in 1995, earned an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business (New York University) in 1998 and received his Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business (New York University) in 2005. Fabrizio worked as a tax consultant first in Italy and then with Coopers & Lybrand in New York City. Prior to returning to school for his Ph.D., he worked for Stern Stewart & Co. in the Economic Value Added Group, also in New York, specializing in consulting firms on performance measurement and incentive compensation issues.
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