Michael Burkert

Michael Burkert works as a professor for managerial accounting and control at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is interested in the design and use of cost accounting and control systems. Currently his research covers such aspects as how to incentivize employees to act ambidextrous and how to better allocate indirect costs to cost objects. He is an experienced teacher regularly teaching at different European Universities and professional programs. Prior to his academic career Michael Burkert worked two years for the international consulting company Simon Kucher & Partners.

• Since Sept. 2013 Full Professor at the University of Fribourg, Holder of the Chair of Managerial Accounting and Control
• 2008 – 2013: Assistant Professor of Managerial Accounting at HEC Lausanne
• 2006 – 2008: Simon - Kucher & Partners Management Consultants, Bonn (Germany)
• 2007: PhD in Business Administration [European Business School (ebs)]