Biography
Dr. Rachel M. Hayes is the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Presidential Chair in Financial Reporting and Professor of Accounting. She served as Dean of the David Eccles School of Business from 2021-2024 and was previously Associate Dean of Faculty and Research. Professor Hayes received an MBA from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She has been a faculty member at the University of Utah since 2005.
Prior to joining the U, Professor Hayes taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. Her research has been published in a number of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Rand Journal of Economics.