Bruns, William John, Jr.

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BRUNS, William John, Jr.

BRUNS, William John, Jr. American, b. 1935. Genres: Administration/Management, Economics. Career: Yale University, New Haven, CT, assistant professor of economics and industrial administration, 1962-66; University of Washington, Seattle, professor of accounting, 1966-72; Harvard University, Boston, MA, visiting associate professor, 1969-70, professor, 1972-93, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, 1993-; Northeastern University, visiting professor, 2001-. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., advisory ed. Publications: Accounting for Decisions: Business Game, 1966; (ed. with D.T. DeCoster) Accounting and Its Behavioral Implications, 1969; Introduction to Accounting: Economic Measurement for Decisions, 1971; (with R. Vancil) A Primer on Replacement Cost Accounting, 1976; (with M.E. Barrett) Case Problems in Management Accounting, 1982, 2nd ed., 1985; (ed. with R.S. Kaplan) Accounting and Management: Field Study Perspectives, 1987; (with S.M. McKinnon) The Information Mosaic, 1992; Performance Measurement, Evaluation, and Incentives, 1992; Accounting for Managers: Text and Cases, 1994, 2nd ed., 1999. Address: Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Boston, MA 02163, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]