Justin J. Hopkins

UVA Darden professor Justin Hopkins reframes accounting as the language that drives strategy, incentives and behavior — showing MBA students, through cases from WWE to Tesla, how financial information shapes the choices leaders make.

Do executives pay a lower price for white-collar crime than the rest of us? New research from UVA Darden Professor Justin J. Hopkins challenges the popular narrative that those who commit financial crimes get away with just a proverbial slap on the wrist.

These insights from Darden Ideas to Action articles unveil the value of ethical considerations from a variety of standpoints and in a variety of sectors. They contain lessons for business leaders, employees and consumers.

After misstating earnings, which companies come clean? In the aftermath of major corporate scandal, Professor Justin Hopkins takes stock of employee stock option misreporting, disincentives to investigate misbehavior and constraints to integrity.

Darden Professor Justin Hopkins and Dain Donelson examine the effects of market-wide decline on the same day a company communicates negative news.