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Kory Maag

Kory Maag

Department: Accounting & Information Management

Email: kmaag@vols.utk.edu

Fourth year

Fields of interest: Corporate governance, Compensation, Financial Reporting

Kory Maag earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting as well as a master’s degree in financial management from Texas A&M University in 2020. While at Texas A&M, he completed internships in internal audit and store operations at Academy Sports + Outdoors in Katy, Texas, as well as an assurance internship at EY in Charlotte, NC. In addition, he taught an entry-level business class to first-year students in 2016, 2017 and 2019. While at UT, he taught Intermediate Financial Accounting II. His dissertation is preliminarily titled “Spring-Loaded Equity Awards: An Examination of the Incentives and Consequences.” His other research projects include “Shareholder Proposal Pressure and Governance Disclosures” with Lauren Cunningham and Roy Schmardebeck and “Obfuscating the Source of Director Nominations” with Cory Cassell, Linda Myers and Roy Schmardebeck. He expects to complete the requirements of the Ph.D. program by May 2024.