Bushman’s History

• 2022 Profile on UNC website: The art of depicting economic reality

• Three profiles on me from my University of Chicago days:    

  • • Faculty Profile 1990; McKinsey Award 1992; McKinsey Award 2 1992; McKinsey Award Plague at Chicago Booth

• My wedding picture from July 1988 (2 months before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago)

• The Amazing Martial Arts Show 1978 ; The Martial Artists

• Me Wrestling at 127 pounds in 1967

Eclectic Teaching Resources

• Video of me discussing the financial statements of the U.S.  (Slides)

• Bushman on Bankruptcy: a video of me discussing the theory and structure of bankruptcy  (Slides)

• Lecture Videos on Accounting for Complex Deals

• Health Care Lectures April 2016:  Syllabus ;  Lecture 1 Slides ; Lecture 1 Video ;  Lecture 2 Slides

• My students all wearing black: EMBA Chapel Hill Fall 2022 ;  Charlotte Class of 25; Charlotte Class of 26; Charlotte Class of 27

• Art embedded in my lecture slides

Slides from Keynote talks/Discussions

• An Eclectic Tour of Debt Markets: Information Economics, Human Values & Intangible Capital (Slides from my Masterclass session at the Northwestern Debt Markets Conference, April 9, 2026 in Evanston, Il)

• Debt Contract Amendments: Through the looking-glass of structural estimation (Video of my discussion) (Slides & video from discussion of Irina Luneva's paper (link)  at the Northwestern Debt Markets Conference, April 11, 2025 in Evanston, Il)

• Human Intangibles (Slides from Keynote Talk at the Hawai'i Accounting Research Conference, Honolulu, January 3, 2025)

• Thoughts on Intangibles in the Banking Sector (Slides from Keynote Talk at Workshop on Financial Institutions Research, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, May 19, 2023)

• The Many Faces of Cash Bonus Plans (Slides from Plenary Talk at the 13th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting, Lisbon, December 2022)

• The Morphing of Corporate Governance (Slides from Virginia Tech Conference Keynote Talk, May 2022)

• Architecture of Transparency (Slides from Plenary Talk at the 2019 AAA Doctoral Consortium)

• Thoughts on Accounting Research (Slides from Keynote Talk Chinese University of Hong Kong Conference, May 2018)

• Finding Connections in Chaos (Slides from Keynote Talk MIT Asia Conference, Xiamen China, July 2016)

• Life in the Academic Big City (Slides from Talk to PhD students at NYU, April 2018)

• Academics and the Life of the Mind  (Slides from Plenary Talk at the 2014 AAA New Faculty Consortium)

• 2013 JAE Conference Discussion on Beatty and Liao  

Random Thoughts

• Thoughts on ESG Measurement, February 2022 (See also Kenan Insights version)

• Talk on Politics and Financial Regulation, November 2010

• An Essay: Social Arbitrage, December 2005