Peggy Bishop Lane

Peggy Bishop Lane is Vice Dean of the Wharton MBA Program for Executives and Adjunct Professor of Accounting. Based in Philadelphia, Professor Lane oversees both the Philadelphia and San Francisco programs. Before joining the MBA Program for Executives, she directed the academic experience for the fulltime MBA Program as Deputy Vice Dean of Academic Affairs for 11 years. Professor Lane teaches Financial Accounting to firstyear MBA and Executive MBA students. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including “Tough, but we’ll thank you in five years.” Previously, Professor Lane was a member of the faculty at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she was awarded the Eli Kushel Accounting Education Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research interests include firms’ incentives to use accounting accruals to manage their financial reports, particularly in the financial services industry, which stems from her experience as an officer and analyst for First RepublicBank (now part of Bank America). Professor Lane earned her PhD from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Christian University. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Graduate Management Admissions Council.

Research

• Catherine M. Schrand and Peggy Bishop Lane, MBA Companion to accompany “Financial Accounting” by Libby, Libby, Short (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2004)

Awards and Honors

• University of Pennsylvania Whatever It Takes award, 2008
• Tough but we’ll thank you in five years Core Teaching Award, 2007-2009
• Commitment to Excellence Award, Hurricane Katrina efforts, 2005
• Tough but we’ll thank you in five years Core Teaching Award, 2004-2005
• MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 1998

Work experience

• The Wharton School
• Vice Dean, MBA for Executives Program and Adjunct Professor of Accounting
• Deputy Vice Dean, Adjunct Professor of Accounting
• Assistant Professor
• NYU Stern School of Business Assistant Professor

Education

• Northwestern University PhD Accounting
• Texas Christian University BBA Finance