Nate Y. Sharp

Dean, Mays Business School

Professor Nate Sharp is Dean of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He holds the Adam C. Sinn ’00 Dean’s Leadership Chair and previously served as Head of the James Benjamin Department of Accounting at Mays Business School.

Dr. Sharp’s research interests include corporate financial reporting, financial analysts, financial journalism, and financial misconduct. His research is published in leading scholarly journals and has received multiple best-paper awards, including the 2021 Distinguished Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association. His research has also been discussed extensively in financial media, including by The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, Forbes, CFO.com, and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. He was named a Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow in 2018 and became Department Head in 2020.

At Texas A&M, Dr. Sharp has taught classes to undergraduate and graduate students, including a graduate course he designed that introduces master’s of accounting students to scholarly research. He was recognized as the 2012-13 Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence Montague Scholar in the Mays Business School. He is also the recipient of the 2018 David and Denise Baggett Teaching Award, the 2015 Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2012 Ernst & Young Teaching Excellence Award, a 2010 Texas A&M University System Teaching Excellence Award, and he was a 2009 Texas A&M University Fish Camp Namesake. He received bachelor’s (cum laude) and master’s degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business before receiving a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. Professor Sharp and his wife, Holly, are the proud parents of five children.