Since 1995, Lecturer Eric Sussman has been teaching accounting and real estate at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, where he has been voted Teacher of the Year ten times by Anderson’s MBA students, and has been awarded the Citibank Teaching Award (1998) and the Neidorf Decade Teaching Award (2008), both voted upon by a committee of faculty members. He has also received recognition by Business Week as one of the Anderson School’s ‘Outstanding Faculty'.
Now, Sussman's popularity has gone national, as Bloomberg BusinessWeek has named him one of the most popular instructors on any management or b-school campus. According to the site, "surveys (were) sent to 2010 graduates asking them to identify their two favorites. Professors were ranked in order of absolute popularity. In all, the responses of 3,732 students were used to calculate this ranking; only schools that had more than 60 student responses were counted. At least one in every five survey respondents from each of the schools listed wrote down these names chosen for our top ten list as their favorite professor—pretty amazing considering they had hundreds of faculty members to choose from."
Regarding Sussman, the publication wrote:
Sussman teaches advanced accounting and fundamentals of real estate and has been known to start singing '80s songs in the middle of class, according to a former student. In 1995, Sussman returned to the school where he received his BBA (graduating summa cum laude in 1987) to teach. One former student, Kate Stephenson, says Sussman wins Anderson's "Professor of the Year" award every year he's eligible; he'd win it every time if the winner wasn't required to sit out for a year. Sussman is also the president of a real estate company. In 2007, a landlord-tenant dispute resulted in a protest outside one of his classes. He used the experience as a teaching lesson.
He teaches in the areas of cost/managerial accounting, financial accounting (beginning through advanced), financial statement analysis, corporate financial reporting, and real estate investment and finance to undergraduate, graduate, and Executive Education students. He is the creator of Insight FSA, an analytical software tool which automatically and critically measures, evaluates, and reports upon the financial accounting and corporate reporting risk for all public companies via Edgar On-line.
To read all of Sussman's bio on the UCLA Anderson website, click here.
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