Dr. Philip Berger

Biography

Philip G. Berger is the Wallman Family Professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, specializing in accounting with a focus on financial reporting and corporate finance. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals in accounting and finance, and he has served as an editor for the Journal of Accounting Research for 18 years. Berger has a rich history of teaching and has held various academic positions, including tenured Associate Professor at the Wharton School from 1991 to 2002 before becoming a tenured Full Professor at Booth in 2002. He has been deeply involved in the academic community, chairing dissertation committees for students who have gone on to top institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Wharton. Additionally, Berger has completed a three-year term as Deputy Dean of Booth’s part-time MBA programs and has directed the Chookaszian Accounting Research Center for five years. His teaching interests span courses in accounting for entrepreneurs, financial accounting, and empirical accounting research across undergraduate, MBA, executive, and Ph.D. levels. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, including the MBA teaching award at Wharton and the Phoenix Prize in 2011 at Chicago Booth.

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