MARK E. ZMIJEWSKI is the Charles T. Horngren Emeritus Professor of Accounting at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has been a member of Chicago Booth since 1984. Professor Zmijeski earned his doctorate at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he also earned his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees. Professor Zmijewski’s research focuses on the valuation of the firm and its parts, as well as the ways in which various capital market participants use information to value securities. He has published various articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Accounting Research and Journal of Accounting and Economics, and won the American Accounting Association’s Competitive Manuscript Award (1984). He has been an Associate Editor of The Accounting Review and on the editorial boards of both the Journal of Accounting Research and The Accounting Review.

In addition to his faculty duties at the University of Chicago, Professor Zmijewski also held the positions of Deputy Dean, Ph.D. Program faculty director, and the Center for Research in Security Prices faculty director. He teaches courses in valuation, mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, accounting, and entrepreneurship and has won teaching awards for his teaching in both the M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. programs at Booth.

Professor Zmijewski has consulted with numerous publicly traded and privately owned companies, as well as with entrepreneurs and private equity investors. Professor Zmijewski is a Senior Consultant to Charles River Associates, a consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and management consulting services. He is also a Senior Advisor to, and a member of, the Investment Committee at Patron Capital Partners, a private equity investment company. Professor Zmijewski is a founder of Chicago Partners, founded in 1994 and subsequently sold to Navigant Consulting, Inc. Within the time he conducted his consulting through Navigant Economics, he was Navigant Economics’ Practice Leader, a member of its management committee, and a member of Navigant Consulting Inc.’s corporate executive committee.