Morris McInnes

James Morris McInnes (born 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Accounting and formerly Dean for Academic Affairs at the Sawyer Business School of Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts. He has also been teaching for almost forty years at the MIT Sloan School of Management, ten years as the head of the accounting area and then as a visiting professor and lecturer on the Greater Boston Executive Programme. McInnes has held several senior financial executive posts.[1]

Education

McInnes was educated at Strathallan School, near Perth, Scotland.[2] He graduated from the University of St Andrews with a degree in physics and received a PhD and MBA from Harvard Business School.[1] In 1963 he founded the Harvard Business School RFC with fellow Scot Jim Johnstone.[3]

Career

McInnes has taught at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management and Manchester Business School where he was director of the PhD programme.[4] He was also a visiting professor at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

His expertise encompasses the design of budgetary control systems, linking strategy and operations, corporate financial management, and international analysis control.[4]

In industry McInnes has served as a financial executive and board member for several international companies.[4] He was the chief financial officer of a company listed on the London Stock Exchange and financial vice president for a major Kuwaiti company.[4]

With his experience McInnes has consulted and lectured worldwide.[4] He has published papers in numerous academic and professional journals including Accounting, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies and Certified Accountant.[4][5]

McInnes is a past president of the Boston chapter of Financial Executives International.[4] In 2011 he was awarded the F. Gorham Brigham Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award by the Boston Business Journal.[6]

Publications

Under the name, J M McInnes, he has published six books:

References

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