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Phil Berger served on the faculty of the Wharton School from 1991 to 2002, including a tenure as Associate Professor from 1998 to 2002. He joined the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago as a tenured Full Professor on July 1, 2002. His research primarily focuses on financial reporting and corporate finance, with his work published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals in accounting and finance. He has served as the editor of the Journal of Accounting Research for 23 years. Berger has chaired and served on numerous dissertation committees for top accounting students, many of whom have gone on to work at leading institutions such as MIT, Wharton, Stanford, and Columbia. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded the 2025 FARS Distinguished PhD Mentoring Award. His teaching interests include accounting for entrepreneurs and empirical accounting research, across undergraduate, MBA, executive, and Ph.D. courses. He has been recognized with an MBA teaching award from Wharton and received the 2011 Phoenix Prize at Chicago Booth. He holds both Ph.D. and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago, and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Department of Philosophy