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 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 to 2004.
Professor Schloetzer’s research examines how performance measurement and management control systems shape behavior and decision making within geographically dispersed organizations and across their boundaries. His interdisciplinary collaborations have produced publications with scholars in accounting, operations, finance, management, economics, and law, and he often draws on proprietary field data, having worked with firms in the technology, oil and gas, heavy vehicle manufacturing, industrial coatings, consumer products, and public relations sectors. His work has appeared in journals including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Management Science, the Journal of Operations Management, and the Journal of Management Accounting Research, has received best paper recognition, and has twice been presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He currently serves as a Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management and served as Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research from 2019 to 2025. He is also on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Accounting, Organizations and Society. Since 2010, Professor Schloetzer has collaborated with The Conference Board on its CEO Succession Practices reports and related work on corporate governance. His perspectives on current business issues have been quoted in nearly 250 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, and he has developed courses across the undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and custom executive programs. Examples include Corporate Governance and Firm Structure, on the art and practice of governance; Transforming Analytics Knowledge into Data-Immersed Action, a hands-on examination of the challenges of using machine learning to predict difficult-to-measure outcomes; and Global Business Experience in the UAE, a project-based learning course offered in Dubai.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business