Thomas Keusch

Thomas Keusch was an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Control at INSEAD. Prior to joining INSEAD, he was on the faculty of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He obtained his PhD at Maastricht University and he was a visiting researcher at Fuqua School of Business, Wharton, and Harvard Law School.

Thomas teaches Managerial Accounting, Sustainability, and Corporate Governance in INSEAD’s MBA, Executive MBA, Master in Management, and PhD programs.

In Managerial Accounting, he emphasizes cost and performance measurement, managerial decision making, and incentives.

In Sustainability, he develops frameworks and case studies for estimating environmental costs, identifying strategic corporate sustainability priorities, and navigating tradeoffs between profitability and sustainability in decision making and performance evaluation.

In Corporate Governance, Thomas discusses the prospects of stakeholder governance vs shareholder governance, the roles of key governance actors inside and outside the firm, and board dynamics.

Thomas’ research interests include managerial accounting, sustainability, and corporate governance. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, and the European Accounting Review.