From Mount Kilimanjaro to MIT, a high achiever joins Department of Accounting

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It was the most difficult challenge Mihir Mehta ever had.

With every step, his lungs heaved as he coped with a lack of oxygen that made him feel as if he was under water. The easiest route was to turn around and leave. But there's only one Mount Kilimanjaro, and although scaling Africa's tallest mountain can be excruciating near the peak - 19,334 feet above sea level - reaching the summit after a seven-day climb was worth the struggle.

Mehta is a high achiever. In addition to climbing mountains - he's also reached the summit of Mount Kosciuszko, the tallest mountain in his native Australia - Mehta recently earned his Ph.D. in accounting from MIT's Sloan School of Management while on a five-year fellowship. As part of his doctoral program, he also took classes in business and law at Harvard.

This semester, Mehta is joining the Fox School's Department of Accounting as an assistant professor. Most recently, he worked as a teaching assistant at Sloan, instructing both graduate and undergraduate students in financial accounting, financial statement analysis and valuation, and taxes and business strategy. In 2006-2007, he received the Sloan Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year Award.

"The breadth of the faculty really impressed me," Mehta said, citing faculty members' specialties in executive compensation and financial reporting, among other areas. "Having so much breadth in the department was attractive, especially in this early stage of my career."


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