Christopher D. Ittner is the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of California State University, Long Beach, he received his MBA from UCLA and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University. Ittner has received a number of teaching awards from Wharton students, and teaches management accounting courses for doctoral students from throughout the United States and Europe. His research has been published in leading accounting, marketing, and operations management journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, and Operation Research. Awards for his research include the American Accounting Association's Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature and Outstanding Dissertation in Management Accounting. He is also co-author of the book Linking Quality to Profits: Quality-Based Cost Management (ASQC and IMA). Ittner is an Associate Editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society and Management Science and serves on the editorial boards of a number of other accounting and operations management journals. Ittner is a founding board member of the Performance Measurement Association and a member of the American Accounting Association, Institute of Management Science, and Production and Operations Management Society. He has worked with a large number of companies on cost accounting and performance measurement issues, including Capital One, EDS, Ernst & Young, General Motors, and Sunoco.