The Charles G. Thalhimer Family Scholar-in-Residence Program was established in 1984 to provide VCU School of Business students and faculty access to outstanding scholars. The program provides significant opportunities for the exchange of ideas and intellectual growth.

2007 Scholar-in-Residence was Dr. Gary Previts from Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

He completed his undergraduate degree at John Carroll University;  his Master of Accountancy at the Ohio State University; and his PhD at the University of Florida and is a CPA. Between his Masters and PhD work he served as an officer in the U.S. Army, including a tour in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.  His work at Case has been distinguished and nationally recognized. 

FINANCIAL REPORTING ISSUES DISCUSSED
BY DR. GARY PREVITS, THALHIMER SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE

“What is the role of accounting? If you don’t do financial
communications, no one knows what is happening.”

Dr. Gary Previts. the Charles G. Thalhimer Family Scholar-in-Residence, spoke to several classes and delivered a public presentation to a crowd of 200 students, faculty and community members during his two-day residency at VCU in September.

His public presentation focused on "Financial Reporting Models: From Our First Big Businesses to Today.” Dr. Previts briefly reviewed a 30-year history of U.S. business practices and issues from the earliest corporate reporting to public investors to 21st century digital reports filed with the SEC on EDGAR. This technical transformation of information to investors both individual and institutional, he called remarkable.

Later in the morning he made a Faculty Research presentation. He credited two 20th century episodes in American accounting history, the establishment of the Return on Investment metric by Donaldson Brown of DuPont, and the collapse of the investments of Ivar Kreuger—two seemingly unrelated episodes—as intersecting parts in the telling of two important chapters in the formation and regulation of today’s accounting environment.

“Soon a new Blue Ribbon Committee will begin looking into all of these business reporting issues, “ he said. Perhaps they will answer a question. that Dr. Previts asked a lot: How much reporting is enough?

Dr. Previts is the President of the American Accounting Association and a professor of Accountancy, Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management.

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2006 M. Lynne Markus, Ph.D.
John W. Poduska, Sr. Chair of Information Management,
Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts – March 28-29, 2006

2005 Dr. George S. Day
Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor, Professor of marketing
Co-Director of Mack Center for Technmological Innovation at Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania

presented"What Does It Mean to be Market Driven?"
Other classroom presentations were scheduled.

2001 Dr. Vernon L. Smith
Director
Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science
George Mason University

2001 Dr. Leonard L. Berry
J.C. Penney Chair of Retailing Studies
Professor of Marketing & Director
Center for Retailing Studies
Lowry Mays College of Business Administration
Texas A&M University

2000 Dr. Peter Tufano
Professor
Business Administration
Harvard Business School

1998 Dr. Raymond R. Burke
E.W. Kelley Chair in Marketing/Accounting
E.W. Kelley School of Business
Indiana University

William M. Cockrum
Professor
Entrepreneurial Studies
John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management

1997 Dr. Amar V. Bhide
Professor
Entrepreneurial Management
Harvard Business School

1996 Dr. Bradford H. Gray
Director
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Yale University

1995 Dr. James R. Emshoff
Chairman & CEO
IndeCap Enterprises, Inc.

1994 Dr. Russell L. Ackoff
Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

1993 Dr. Robert A. Eisenbeis
Wachovia Professor of Banking
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1991 Dr. Harvey J. Brightman
Regent's Professor of Decision Sciences
Georgia State University

Dr. Robert R. Sterling
The Kendall D. Gariff Professor of Business Enterprises
University of Utah

1990 Dr. Charles R. Plott
The Harkness Professor of Economics & Political Science
California Institute of Technology

1989 Dr. Anthony Downs
International Real Estate
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

1988 Dr. Philip R. Cateora
Professor of International Marketing
University of Colorado

1987 Dr. Norma B. Sigband
Professor of Communications
University of Southern California

1986 Dr. Gordon B. Davis
Honeywell Professor of Management Information Systems
School of Management
University of Minnesota

1984 Dr. John B. Miner
Professor of Management & Industrial Relations
Georgia State University