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Paul M. Healy

James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration
Henry B. Arthur Fellow
Unit Head, Accounting and Management

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Paul Healy joined Harvard Business School as a Professor of Business Administration in 1997. His primary teaching interests include corporate financial reporting and analysis, corporate governance and accountability, and equity research in capital markets. Professor Healy teaches in several executive education programs, and is faculty cochair of Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Evaluation. Professor Healy received his B.C.A. Honors (1st Class) in Accounting and Finance from Victoria University, New Zealand in 1977, his M.S. in Economics from the University of Rochester in 1981, his Ph.D. in Business from the University of Rochester in 1983, and is a New Zealand CPA. In New Zealand, Professor Healy worked for Arthur Young and ICI. Prior to joining Harvard, Professor Healy spent fourteen years on the faculty at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, where he received awards for teaching excellence in 1991, 1992, and 1997. He is the coauthor (with Professors Krishna G. Palepu) of one of the leading financial analysis textbooks, Business Analysis and Valuation. In 1993-94 he served as Deputy Dean at the Sloan School, and in 1994-95 he visited London Business School and Harvard Business School.

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