Professor Schloetzer earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. He joined the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. Among other appointments, he has served as Area Chair of Accounting and Business Law since 2021, Faculty Director of the McDonough Senior Honors Thesis Program since 2023, and Director of the AI, Analytics, and Future of Work Initiative from its founding in 2020 until becoming Area Chair in 2021. Before joining academia, Professor Schloetzer worked in the global telecommunications industry from 1997-2004.
Professor Schloetzer’s research focuses on how organizations control and coordinate operating activities to support strategy implementation. His interdisciplinary collaborations have produced publications with scholars in accounting, operations, finance, management, economics, and law. His research often relies on field data, having collaborated on projects with firms in the technology, financial services, oil and gas, heavy vehicle manufacturing, industrial coatings, consumer products, and public relations sectors. His research has received two best paper awards and has twice been presented at the World Economic Forum. He has served as an Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research since 2018 and is on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations & Society, and Production and Operations Management. Since 2010, Professor Schloetzer has collaborated with The Conference Board’s Corporate Leadership Practice, contributing articles on current issues in corporate governance and CEO succession. His perspectives on current business issues have been quoted in nearly 200 articles, including stories in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and Reuters.
Professor Schloetzer teaches courses at the intersection of accounting and management strategy. In addition, he developed multiple courses for graduate and executive programs, including Corporate Governance and Firm Structure, which focuses on the art and practice of governance; Transforming Analytics Knowledge into Data-Immersed Action, which provides students a hands-on opportunity to examine the challenges associated with using machine learning to predict difficult-to-measure outcomes; and Global Business Experience in UAE, which is a project-based learning course offered in Dubai.