{"id":29988,"date":"2023-01-20T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=29988"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:00:44","slug":"professor-profiles-eric-sussman-ucla-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-eric-sussman-ucla-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Eric Sussman, UCLA Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Eric-Sussman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8929 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Eric-Sussman.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anderson.ucla.edu\/faculty-and-research\/accounting\/faculty\/sussman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eric Sussman\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><em>from UCLA Anderson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Sussman<\/strong>\u00a0is an adjunct professor in Anderson\u2019s accounting department and also serves as president of Amber Capital, a real estate investment company. He has been voted Teacher of the Year 13 times by Anderson students and received the Citibank Teaching Award and the Neidorf Decade Teaching Award\u2014both honors decided by a faculty committee. In addition, Sussman has won the Teaching Excellence Award in the full-time MBA program, which is decided by a vote of second-year students, and the University-Wide Distinguished Teacher Award. Sussman has also been recognized by\u00a0<em>Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0<em>Businessweek<\/em>\u00a0as one of Anderson\u2019s Outstanding Faculty members numerous times and as one of the Top Ten Most Popular Business School Professors. In addition to his work in the classroom, Sussman created Insight FSA, a software tool that measures and evaluates the financial accounting and corporate reporting risk for public companies via Edgar Online.<\/p>\n<p>A second-year student blogger at Anderson once described Sussman in a post as \u201cone of what I call the five rock-star professors here,\u201d and a first year we interviewed stated that Sussman \u201chas an outstanding reputation at the school.\u201d A graduate we spoke with who had taken Sussman\u2019s \u201cCorporate Financial Reporting\u201d class agreed: \u201c[Sussman is] probably the best professor at Anderson in my eyes and to a lot of other students,\u201d they said, continuing, \u201cProfessor Sussman is also incredibly flexible when it comes to helping students. If you need the help, he will find a way to make time for you no matter your level. He truly was a passionate practitioner who invested so much in the students and school. People like him make Anderson exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about UCLA Anderson and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,31],"tags":[181,209],"class_list":["post-29988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professor-profiles","category-ucla-anderson","tag-professors","tag-ucla"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Profiles: Eric Sussman, UCLA Anderson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No one will affect your education more than your professors. 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