NPS vita for Thomas Albright

Thomas Albright: Professor of Accounting
Graduate School of Business and Public Policy
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: 831-656-7793
Email: tlalbrig (at) nps.edu

EDUCATION:: Ph.D. - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1990
Accounting (Support Area: Statistics)
MBA - California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California, 1982
Graduate Honors: MBA With Distinction
BFA - University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1977

NPS EXPERIENCE:

Naval Postgraduate School - Professor of Accounting (August 2012 - present)

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

The University of Alabama - Professor of Accounting (August 2002 - August 2012)
Tulane Executive MBA (Summer 2009)
The University of Alabama - Associate Professor of Accounting (August 1995 - August 2002)
The University of Alabama - Assistant Professor of Accounting (August 1990 - August 1995)

AWARDS:

University of Alabama- National Alumni Association
- Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award-(Four awards presented annually at the University level) 2005
MBA
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2012
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2009
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2008
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2005
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2004
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2001
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2000
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 1999
- MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 1991
Executive MBA
- Executive MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2012
- Executive MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2011
- Executive MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2010
- Executive MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2009
- Executive MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 2003
- Executive MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 1993
- Executive MBA Faculty Excellence Award/Professor of the year - 1992
Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Faculty Support Award - April 1992
Beta Gamma Sigma
Beta Alpha Psi
J Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow. Presented by the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, October 1997.
1993 Certificate of Merit for the article, "What are the Costs of Variability?" Institute of Management Accountants.
Third Place Honors in the International Case Competition, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. 1994.

BOARDS/MEMBERSHIPS:

AD HOC REVIEWER
- Behavioral Research in Accounting (BRIA)
- Accounting Horizons
- Journal of Information Systems
- Canadian Accounting Perspectives
- Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal (AAAJ)
EDITORIAL BOARDS
- IMA Educational Case Journal
- Advances in Management Accounting
- The Journal of Managerial Issues
- Cases from Managerial Accounting Practice
SERVICE
- Conference Co-Director 2004. AAA Management Accounting Section Mid-year conference, Miami, Florida.
- Conference Co-Director 2003. AAA Management Accounting Section Mid-year conference, San Diego, California.
- Conference Director - 1994 AAA Management Accounting Section: Teaching Japanese Cost Management Techniques, Boston MA.
- Southeast Regional Director - Management Accounting Section - American Accounting Association. 1996-2004
- AAA Management Accounting Section Executive Board
- Chairperson, University of Alabama MBA Committee

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: (View an extended list)

Albright, Tom, C. Burgess, S. Davis. 2011. The Balanced Scorecard and 21st Century Thoughts on Motivation. Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance 73-80.
Davis, S, T. Albright, and M. McCoskey. 2011. Establishing a Transfer Price for an Intermediate Product - A Case Study from a Multinational Enterprise. Cost Management 16-22.
Albright, Tom, C. Burgess, A. Hibbets, M. Roberts. 2010. How to Transition from Assessing Performance to Enhancing Performance with Balanced Scorecard Goal Action Plans. Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance 69-74.
Albright, Tom, C. Burgess, A. Hibbets, M. Roberts. 2010. Four Steps to Simplify Multi-Measure Performance Evaluations using the Balanced Scorecard. Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance 63 - 68.
Johnson, Diane, S. Davis, and T. Albright. 2009. Examining the Relationship between Employee Attitudes and a Firm’s Financial Performance: A Theoretical Framework and Causal Investigation. The Journal of Managerial Issues 367-382.