Robert Jay Swieringa (born 1942) was the ninth Dean and is a professor emeritus of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.^[1][2][3] He also served as an elected member to General Electric Company board of directors.^[4]

Swieringa earned his BA from Augustana College in 1964. He then attended the University of Denver and earned his MBA in 1965. He concluded his studies with a PhD in Accountancy from the University of Illinois Gies College of Business in 1969.^[5]

Swieringa had a distinguished teaching career, holding tenure or tenure track positions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, and Yale School of Management.^[2] as well as visiting positions at Harvard Business School. He served on the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the standard-setting body responsible for U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, from 1986 to 1996.^[2] Swieringa also played a governing role in graduate business school admissions as a chair of the board of directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council, which provides the Graduate Management Admission Test.^[2]

Selected works

• Toward Reporting Comprehensive Income (with L. Todd Johnson and Cheri L. Reither), Accounting Horizons (1995).
• Management Accounting and Action (with Karl E. Weick), in Readings in Accounting for Management Control (1983).
• An Assessment of Laboratory Experiments in Accounting (with Karl E. Weick), Journal of Accounting Research (1982).
• Organizational Views of Transfer Pricing (with John H. Waterhouse), Accounting, Organizations and Society (1982).
• An Accounting Change and Information Processing Changes (with Thomas R. Dyckman and Robert E. Hoskin), Accounting, Organizations and Society (1982).
• The Relationship between Managers' Budget-Oriented Behavior and Selected Attitude, Position, Size, and Performance Measures (with Robert H. Moncur), Journal of Accounting Research (1972).

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