{"id":30176,"date":"2022-07-12T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=30176"},"modified":"2022-07-12T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:03:32","slug":"professor-profiles-katherine-schipper-duke-university-fuqua-school-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-katherine-schipper-duke-university-fuqua-school-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Katherine Schipper, Duke University Fuqua School of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Katherine-Schipper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13011 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Katherine-Schipper.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"156\" 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=\"http:\/\/www.fuqua.duke.edu\/faculty_research\/faculty_directory\/schipper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Katherine Schipper<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>\u00a0from the Duke University Fuqua School of Business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Katherine Schipper<\/strong>\u00a0is the Thomas F. Keller Professor of Business Administration at Fuqua and has typically taught one of the MBA program\u2019s core accounting courses, \u201cFinancial Accounting.\u201d She previously served in several roles for the American Accounting Association and is currently the president of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research. Schipper was editor of the\u00a0<em>Journal of Accounting Research<\/em>\u00a0for many years and was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board from 2001 to 2006, before joining Fuqua. In 2007, Schipper was the first woman inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>A second-year student we interviewed who had taken the course \u201cGlobal Institutions and Environment\u201d (which is not available during the 2021\u20132022 academic year) with Schipper said, \u201cShe was outstanding. It was amazing to have professors of their caliber teaching the first class we experienced at Fuqua.\u201d Another second year told us, \u201cI was really nervous about accounting, but she made it very accessible, and even occasionally fun.\u201d When asked which professor impressed her most, a second year we interviewed named Schipper, praising her rigor in the classroom: \u201cShe held every single person to an impeccably high standard and set the tone for graduate level expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about the Duke University Fuqua School of Business 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\"><strong><em>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/em><\/strong><\/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":[24,40],"tags":[232,181],"class_list":["post-30176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-fuqua","category-professor-profiles","tag-duke-fuqua","tag-professors"],"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: Katherine Schipper, Duke Fuqua School of Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Katherine Schipper\u00a0is the Thomas F. 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