[1] Larcker was previously the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Accounting and Information Systems at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Larcker's research focuses on executive compensation, corporate governance, and managerial accounting.
His work examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organizations.
He has published numerous research studies and articles on these topics and co-authored two books with Brian Tayan, Stanford MBA 2003, titled "Corporate Governance Matters: A Closer Look at Organizational Choices and Their Consequences" published by FT Press[2] and "A Real Look at Real World Corporate Governance".
[3] He received the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award in 2001 with Christopher D. Ittner for "Are Non-financial Measures Leading Indicators of Financial Performance?