Assistant Professor of Accounting

Phone: 994-2773
Office: 435 Reid Hall
Email: See COB Directory

Curriculum Vita

Dr. Priscilla Wisner

After 8 years of teaching in Arizona ("it's a dry heat"), Professor Wisner has traded palm trees for pine trees. She comes to MSU from Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, where she taught strategic cost management and managerial decision making to MBA and executive education students.

At MSU, Prof. Wisner teaches the Acct 433 / 434 (Cost / Management Accounting) classes, as well as in the MPAc Program. She is also the academic director of the MPAc program.

Dr. Wisner earned her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee, an MBA degree from Cornell University, and a B.A. in International Economics from The George Washington University. Dr. Wisner has over fifteen year's experience consulting with corporations regarding financial systems implementation, process and product costing, and performance measurement systems. Fluent in Spanish, she has conducted classes in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico.

Dr. Wisner's research focuses on the implementation of strategy in organizations, concentrating primarily on management control and performance measurement. That is, how does management efficiently and effectively push strategic initiatives out to the tens or hundreds or thousands of people working in the organization in a way that maintains the consistency of the strategy, and how are the outcomes communicated back to management decision makers in a timely and cost effective manner? In recent years, Prof. Wisner has focused on studying corporate responsibility strategies and outcomes.

As detailed on her vitae, her research has been published in Management International Review, The Journal of Operations Management, and The Harvard Business School Balanced Scorecard Report, among other journals and books.