Trung Nguyen

Trung Nguyen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting & Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Nguyen’s research interests include financial misconduct, government regulation and enforcement, corporate governance, and behavioral biases in financial markets. More specifically, she studies the relationship between financial regulatory and enforcement agencies’ behavior and financial fraud. In addition, her research explores the effects of financial fraud and accounting violations disclosure on investors’ corporate governance efforts and investment choices. She also studies the incentives for and determinants of private information disclosure by managers. Professor Nguyen’s work has been featured in Bloomberg.

Professor Nguyen earned a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in economics from Harvard University.

Please see Professor Nguyen's personal website 

Journal Articles

• Nguyen, Trung. "The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror." Journal of Accounting Research 59, no. 1 (March 2021): 5–58. View Details

Working Papers

• Nguyen, Trung. "Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Learning from Corporate Fraud and Corporate Governance Spillovers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-135, June 2021. View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials

• Dey, Aiyesha, Trung Nguyen, Marshal Herrmann, and Julia Kelley. "Financial Reporting at Mattel." Harvard Business School Case 122-006, October 2021. View Details

Additional Information

• Personal Website
• Curriculum Vitae