Zachary B Williams

  • Assistant Professor, Business
Dr. Zach Williams

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Dr. Zach Williams is an Associate Professor at the Mercy University School of Business in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He has an MBA in Finance from the Duke University Fuqua School of Business and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Hampton University. He has researched and published extensively on the information content of financial statements, including evaluations of IFRS, Japanese GAAP, UK GAAP, and US GAAP. Other research interests include Interest Rate Theory, ESG Investing, and Emotional Intelligence.

Prior to teaching, he worked in asset management at New York Life Insurance and started his own communications consulting company in which he trained business professionals in public speaking skills.

BA in Theater at Oberlin College, 1996

MBA in Finance at Duke University Fuqua School of Business, 2007

Ph.D. in Business Administration at Hampton University, 2020

(2024). 'The Causation Dilemma in ESG Research.' Green Finance 6(2). Williams, Z., & Apollonio, H.

(2024). 'IFRS vs. Japanese GAAP Tested with Value Relevance Methodology. The Indonesian Journal of Accounting Research 27(1). Williams, Z.

(2023). 'Expressive Suppression as an Emotion Regulation Technique and its Potential Impact on Perceived Stresss.' Management Science Letters 13(1), 1-10. Caramanica, R., Williams, Z., & Rice, S.

(2022). 'The Materiality Challenge of ESG Ratings.' Economics and Culture 19(2). Williams, Z.

(2021). 'The Impact of Business Program Accreditation on Ranking and Enrollment for HBCU Schools.' Research Journal of Business Management 8(4). Williams, Z.

(2021). 'Daniel Goleman’s Emotionally Intelligent Contribution to Organizational Theory.' The Journal of Management and Innovation 7(1). Williams, Z.

(2020) 'The Value of Information Content in IFRS Financial Statements.' Dissertation published by ProQuest. Williams, Z.

(2019). 'A Reexamination of Ball & Brown.' Journal of Management and Innovation 5(2). Williams, Z.

(2019) 'A Reevaluation of the Work of William Beaver in 1968'. Journal of Management and Innovation 5(1). Williams, Z & West, L.

(2018) 'Stepwise Regression to Predict Market Performance in the Janet Yellen Era. Journal of Management and Innovation 4(2). Williams, Z.

(2018) 'The Effect of Past Interest Rates on Current Market Performance.' The Journal of Business and Finance Research 7(1). Williams, Z., Credle, S, & Michael, M.

(2018) 'Rideshare Companies Uber and Lyft Strongly Affect Taxi and Rental Car Industries.' Journal of Management and Innovation Vol 4(1). Williams, Z.