Mendoza
Deloitte Foundation Department Chair of Accountancy; Deloitte Professor of Accountancy
The Conversation
April 02, 2026
Brad Badertscher, Professor of Accountancy, University of Notre Dame
Science Magazine
February 04, 2026
In a groundbreaking study titled “Cheap stock options: Antecedents and outcomes,” forthcoming in Management Science, researchers led by Brad Badertscher, Deloitte Professor of Accountancy at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, illuminate the expansive prevalence and significant economic implications of cheap stock options issued immediately before IPOs.
phys.org
February 03, 2026
"The average firm's IPO price is more than five times the exercise price (price per share when stock options are exercised) of options issued in the fiscal year before the IPO," said lead author Brad Badertscher, the Deloitte Foundation Department Chair of Accountancy and Deloitte Professor of Accountancy at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
WIO News
January 26, 2022
His federal tax obligations could be as high as 40% on proceeds from some of the sales, said Brad Badertscher, an accounting professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Associated Press
November 17, 2021
His federal tax obligations could be as high as 40% on proceeds from some of the sales, said Brad Badertscher, an accounting professor at the University of Notre Dame.