Karen Wilken Braun is an associate professor for the Weatherhead School of Management
at Case Western Reserve University. Professor Braun was on the faculty of the
J.M. Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia before her appointment at
Case Western. She has received several student-nominated Outstanding Teacher of the
Year awards at both business schools.
Professor Braun has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1985 and holds membership
in the American Accounting Association (AAA), the Institute of Management
Accountants, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She also holds
the Chartered Global Management Accountant designation, and is a member of the
AAA's Management Accounting Section as well as the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum
Section. Her research and teaching interests revolve around lean operations,
sustainability, corporate responsibility, and accounting education. Dr. Braun's work has
been published in Contemporary Accounting Research, Issues in Accounting Education,
and Journal of Accounting Education.
Dr. Braun received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, where she was an
AICPA Doctoral Fellow, a Deloitte & Touche Doctoral Fellow, and an AAA Doctoral
Consortium Fellow. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Luther College,
where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Braun gained public accounting experience
while working at Arthur Andersen & Co. and accumulated additional business
and management accounting experience as a corporate controller.
Wendy M. Tietz is an associate professor for the Department of Accounting in the
College of Business Administration at Kent State University, where she has taught since
2000. Prior to Kent State University, she was on the faculty at the University of Akron.
She teaches in a variety of formats, including large sections, small sections, and webbased
sections. She has received numerous college and university teaching awards while
at Kent State University. Most recently she was named the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor
of the Year for the College of Business Administration at Kent State University.
Dr. Tietz is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Management Accountant,
and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. She is a member of the American Accounting
Association (AAA), the Institute of Management Accountants and the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She has published in Issues in Accounting
Education, Accounting Education: An International Journal, and Journal of Accounting
& Public Policy. She regularly presents at AAA regional and national meetings. She
also leads a short-term Study Abroad trip for accounting majors to Paris and London
each year.
Dr. Tietz received her Ph.D. from Kent State University. She received both her
M.B.A. and B.S.A. from the University of Akron. She worked in industry for several
years, both as a controller for a financial institution and as the operations manager and
controller for a recycled plastics manufacturer.
Dr. Tietz and her husband, Russ, have two grown sons. In her spare time, she enjoys
bike riding, walking, and reading. She is also very interested in using technology
in education.
