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N e e r u Pa h a r i a
Rama S. Ramamurthy
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Visiting Professor in Accounting
Neeru Paharia conducts research on judgment and decision making, consumer behavior, signaling through brands, social media, political consumption, moral psychology, and digital marketing.
As a CPA and a business communications specialist, Rama Ramamurthy brings a unique range of experience to her position as visiting professor in accounting. She has received professional recognition for teaching
Prior to joining the Georgetown McDonough faculty, Paharia
courses in International Financial Reporting Standards
served as the research director for the Edmond J. Safra Center
(IFRS) for the past several years. She has delivered
for Ethics at Harvard University. She also spent three years on
numerous presentations on the integration of IFRS into
the founding team at Creative Commons serving as assistant
the accounting curriculum and also has moderated several
and executive director, after working at McKinsey as an associ-
IFRS related discussions for DVD productions.
ate consultant. She has cofounded several community-oriented
Prior to joining Georgetown McDonough, Ramamurthy
social networking sites in education, research, and music
taught at the College of William and Mary, the Ohio State
including Peer 2 Peer University (p2pu.org), Acawiki.org, and
University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
ccmixter.org.
Ramamurthy holds an MAS in accounting, an MBA, and an
Paharia’s work has been published in the Journal of Consumer
M.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Research and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision
Champaign. She also earned an M.A. and a B.A. in English
Processes, and she has authored several book chapters.
from the University of Madras, Holy Cross College in
Paharia holds a doctorate in marketing from Harvard
Tiruchirapalli, India. She is a member of the American
Business School, an M.S. in public policy and
Accounting Association and the American
management from Carnegie Mellon
Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
University, and a B.A. in economics from the University of California.