Jennifer Blouin
Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Schedule:
June 6 – 9, 2025
Faculty Webpage:
wharton.upenn.edu/blouin/
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Professor Blouin is the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management in accounting at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. She studies taxation in many contexts, including capital structure, asset pricing, payout policy and multinational firm behavior. Professor Blouin’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals, including Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, National Tax Journal and the Journal of the American Taxation Association. She is an Editor for the Review of Accounting Studies, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Accounting Research, and serves on the editorial boards of several other leading accounting journals. Professor Blouin has also served as a Wharton Fellow and Penn Fellow.
Professor Blouin teaches taxation to undergraduate, MBA, and PhD students. She has won numerous Wharton teaching awards including the MBA Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award and the Award for Teaching Excellence in both the daytime and executive MBA programs. In 2019, Professor Blouin received the University of Pennsylvania’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. She received her PhD in Accounting from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and her BS from Indiana University – Bloomington. Prior to obtaining her PhD, Professor Blouin was a tax manager with Arthur Andersen LLP.
Hans Christensen
Chookaszian Family Professor of Accounting and David G.Booth Faculty Fellow at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Teaching Schedule:
June 17 – 21, 2025
Faculty Webpage:
chicagobooth.edu/hans-b-christensen
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Hans Christensen is the Chookaszian Family Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research focuses on the societal implications of regulation and corporate practices aimed at promoting social responsibility. This includes examining the impact of transparency regulations on healthcare and labor safety, evaluating the effectiveness of supply-chain due diligence regulation in addressing issues like conflict and child labor, and studying the role of corporate sustainability commitments in reducing pollution. In addition to his research, Professor Christensen shares his knowledge by teaching MBA and PhD courses on sustainability related topics at Chicago Booth and in doctoral research seminars at other institutions.
Among others, his work has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies. He earned his doctoral degree from Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom
Joe H. Schroeder
Professor, PwC Faculty Fellow, and Chair of Graduate Accounting Programs at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Teaching Schedule:
June 1 – 4, 2o25
Faculty Webpage:
kelley.iu.edu/jhschroe
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Joe H. Schroeder is a Professor and the PwC Faculty Fellow at Indiana University, Kelley School of Business. Schroeder is also Chair of the Graduate Accounting Programs at Kelley. Schroeder earned his Ph.D. in Accounting from Michigan State University in 2013 and his B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from Ball State University in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Schroeder is a CPA (Indiana) and prior to academia worked as a senior auditor in the Indianapolis office of EY.
Professor Schroeder’s research examines the impact of auditing on financial reporting and disclosure quality, as well as the impact of regulation on the auditor/client dynamic. He also examines how human capital impacts audit quality and the audit profession. His work has appeared in Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Accounting Horizons. Schroeder’s research has received several recognitions including the 2015 AAA Outstanding Audit Dissertation Award and the 2020 AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal. Schroeder currently serves as Editor of The Accounting Review and previously served as an editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (2020-2023).
Professor Schroeder is currently a Board Member of the Indiana CPA Society where he is working as an advocate for the CPA profession in the State of Indiana. He has also served in a number of Chair and Service positions for the American Accounting Association and the FAR and Audit Sections.
Professor Schroeder teaches auditing and has received many teaching awards including the IU Trustees Teaching Award, the Kelley Innovative Teaching Award, and the Harry C. Sauvain Teaching Award. Schroeder believes in incorporating real life examples and interactive learning modules to prepare his students to be leaders and problem solvers in the accounting profession.
Brian Joseph White
Associate Professor of Accounting, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Teaching Schedule:
June 12 – 15, 2025
Faculty Webpage:
business.cornell.edu/bjw235
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Brian White is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. His research focuses on behavioral factors that affect judgments and decisions of participants in the financial reporting process. He teaches financial accounting in Cornell’s Executive and Residential MBA programs and a PhD seminar on behavioral research in accounting. His award-winning research has been published in leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. He currently serves as an Editor at Contemporary Accounting Research. Brian has degrees from Georgetown University, the University of Edinburgh, Manchester Business School, and the University of Illinois where he completed his PhD. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he spent ten years as finance director for a privately-held retailer based in Liverpool, England. Prior to joining Johnson at Cornell, Brian was on the faculty at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
