Edward L. Maydew
Senior Executive Director, UNC Tax Center and David E. Hoffman Distinguished Professor of Accounting
Directors, Scholars & Staff
Directors
Edward L. Maydew
Edward Maydew’s teaching and research interests include taxation and accounting and their roles in economic decisions. He has received awards for excellence in teaching and research. He is the senior executive director of the UNC Tax Center. Dr. Maydew is coauthor of “Taxes and Business Strategy: A Planning Approach” with Myron Scholes, Mark Wolfson, Merle Erickson, Michelle Hanlon and Terry Shevlin. He is an editor of The Accounting Review. His research is published in the leading academic journals in his field, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory and Journal of the American Taxation Association. Dr. Maydew consults with prominent law firms and corporations on a variety of complex accounting and tax matters. He was employed by a predecessor of PwC in its Chicago office before he earned his PhD. Prior to joining UNC Kenan-Flagler, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell University.
He received his PhD from the University of Iowa and BBA from Iowa State University.
Douglas A. Shackelford
Founder, UNC Tax Center, Former Dean Emeritus, Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation
Douglas A. Shackelford
Douglas A. Shackelford is the former dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is also the founder of the UNC Tax Center. He is a retired seasoned academic leader, business education innovator and internationally recognized scholar. As an award-winning researcher and teacher, his work focuses on taxes and business strategy. His current areas of interest include the effects of shareholder taxes on equity prices, taxation of multinationals and disclosure of corporate tax information. Dr. Shackelford served as the first associate dean of MBA@UNC, the innovative online MBA program, from 2010 until he became dean on Feb. 1, 2014. He served as senior associate dean for academic affairs from 2003-2007, and associate dean of the Master of Accounting Program from 1998-2002. He is the former director of the UNC Tax Center, which he founded in 2001. Dr. Shackelford is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, Mass. He has published widely in accounting, economics, finance and law journals. He has held visiting faculty positions at Stanford University, Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands and Oxford University. A CPA, he was a senior tax consultant with Arthur Andersen in Boston and Greensboro from 1981-85. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and his BS from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Courtney Knoll
Tax Advisor, UNC Tax Center, Clinical Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean of the UNC Master of Accounting Program and Master of Science in Management Program
Courtney Knoll
Courtney Edwards specializes in taxation. She teaches courses on individual taxation, business taxation, international taxation and tax research.
An award-winning teacher, she teaches in the Master of Accounting and Undergraduate Business Programs. She encourages student interest in accounting and tax by supporting various student organizations and activities. She serves as the faculty advisor for the Undergraduate Accounting Club, the PwC Challenge Case Competition and UNC’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program.
She co-authored “Germany’s Repeal of the Corporate Capital Gains Tax: The Equity Market Response” in the Journal of American Taxation Association with UNC Kenan-Flagler professors Mark Lang, Edward Maydew and Douglas Shackelford. She also wrote “Employee Stock Options and Taxes” with John Graham, Dr. Lang and Dr. Shackelford, published in the Journal of Investment Management.
She was a tax manager in Arthur Andersen’s Atlanta office, where she worked for five years. Dr. Edwards received her PhD from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She received her MS in accounting with a tax concentration and her BS in commerce from the University of Virginia.
Jeffrey L. Hoopes
Research Director, UNC Tax Center and Professor of Accounting and Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy
Jeffrey L. Hoopes
Jeff Hoopes is a Professor of Accounting at the University of North Carolina and the Research Director of the UNC Tax Center. Jeff has been awarded the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He is a CPA in the State of Colorado.
Jeff teaches Taxes and Business Strategy and Accounting and Public Policy to graduate and undergraduate students.
He conducts research related to corporate taxation, and his research focuses on the intersection of accounting, public economics, and finance. He has published in academic research outlets such as the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, The Economic Journal, National Tax Journal, etc., has written opinion pieces published in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and The Hill, has published in practitioner outlets such as the CPA Journal and Tax Notes, and his work has been cited in media outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, CNN, NPR, Fortune, Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic, Bloomberg and USA Today.
Jeff has testified before Congress, advised the Congressional Budget Office and worked on joint research projects with the Internal Revenue Service.
He files married filing jointly, and claims 5 child tax credits.
Jeffrey_Hoopes@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Scholars
John Gallemore
Research Scholar, Associate Professor of Accounting, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
John Gallemore
John Gallemore studies how firms’ economic and financial reporting behavior are shaped by corporate tax policy and enforcement.
His research has been published in top accounting journals, such as the Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research and Contemporary Accounting Research. His research and expertise have been featured by media outlets such as The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg.
Dr. Gallemore teaches Strategic Cost Analysis and Performance Evaluation in the full-time MBA program.
A triple Tar Heel, he joins the faculty from the University of Chicago, where he won the Emory Williams Award for Teaching Excellence, the school-wide teaching award decided by students across all MBA programs. He was named one of Poets & Quants “Best 40 Under 40” business school professors.
As a PhD student at UNC Kenan-Flagler, he won several awards, including the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award and Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Award. He was an American Accounting Association/Deloitte Doctoral Consortium Fellow and a FASB Doctoral Consortium Fellow.
He earned his PhD in accounting, his MBA in finance and his BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.
Margot Howard
Research Scholar, UNC Tax Center and Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting
Margot Howard
Margot Howard studies how tax policy relates to investment, financing, and reporting decisions. Her research has been published in the Journal of the American Taxation Association and the Journal of Portfolio Management.
Professor Howard has taught courses in financial accounting, individual income tax, and tax and business strategy. She currently teaches in the undergraduate and MAC programs.
Professor Howard won the Best Case Award in the Carl Menconi Ethics Case Writing Competition.
She earned her B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, her MAcc from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Margot_Howard@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Stephen Glaeser
Research Scholar, UNC Tax Center, Associate Dean of the PhD Program and Associate Professor of Accounting
Stephen Glaeser
Stephen Glaeser researches issues at the intersection of accounting and economics. He studies how innovative firms trade-off the benefits of communicating with investors against the costs of publicly revealing information about partially non-excludable innovations. He also is interested in how taxation affects real decisions and how imperfect information gives rise to agency conflicts.
Professor Glaeser teaches courses in managerial and financial accounting.
The Accounting Review and the Journal of Accounting and Economics have published his research.
He worked as an assistant vice president at Citi Hedge Fund Services and an internal audit team leader at Huntington National Bank.
He is completing his PhD in business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his MBA and BA from the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University.
Eva Labro
Research Scholar, UNC Tax Center & Michael W. Haley Distinguished Professor and Accounting Area Chair
Eva Labro
Eva Labro’s research and teaching interests in management accounting interface with other disciplines such as economics, operations management, financial accounting, tax and purchasing. She is specifically interested in costing system design, and the provision of management accounting information for both decision-making and performance measurement.
Dr. Labro is an award-winning teacher and researcher.
She received the 2021 and 2011 Notable Contributions to the Management Accounting Literature Awards, 2022 Weatherspoon Award for Distinguished Research, 2019 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in MBA Teaching, 2018 Bullard Award for Research Impact, 2017 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in PhD Teaching, 2016 Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award at UNC Kenan-Flagler, 2007 Best Management Accounting Paper Award at the American Accounting Association conference, and 2006 London School of Economics Teaching Prize. She received the Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award three times – in 2011, 2013 and 2014 – from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
She has published extensively in top journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management.
She is an editor at The Accounting Review, an associate editor at Journal of Accounting Research, and a senior editor at Production and Operations Management (POM) for its POM-Accounting Interface. She is the immediate-past senior editor at the Journal of Management Accounting Research. She serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review and Management Accounting Research.
Dr. Labro’s work has received research funding from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the U.K. and the Institute of Management Accountants in the U.S.
A dual American-Belgian national, she is fluent in Dutch/Flemish and conversational in French and German, with notions of Italian and Danish.
She received her PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. She also studied in Denmark and the U.K. She received a doctoral fellowship from the Intercollegiate Centre for Management Studies in Brussels. She obtained her masters in commercial and business economics.
Eva_Labro@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Staff
Melanie Reynolds
Program Manager, UNC Tax Center
Melanie Reynolds
Melanie Reynolds is a Program Manager at the UNC Tax Center. Her background is in mechanical engineering. Melanie was a project manager at Ocean Spray Cranberries and Dunkin’ Donuts. Her responsibilities included equipment testing, process documentation, timeline management and weekly communication updates. While working on a donut optimization project her team applied for and were granted a patent for a temperature and relative humidity controlled proofing cabinet.
While raising a family, Melanie supervised PTA fundraising activities for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Her excellent organizational and project management skills helped meet or exceed fundraising goals for silent auctions, pancake breakfasts and school dances. Melanie’s volunteer experience also includes various non-profit organizations such as the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill, Be Loud! Sophie Foundation, Girls Scouts and the Lake Hogan Farms Homeowners Association.
Melanie loves to bake sweet treats for her husband and three children. Her two Boston Terriers keep her very active. If she is not baking, Melanie can be found either reading or gardening.