Biography

Kathleen Fitzgerald is known at the University of Chicago as a superb educator. She brings a remarkably wide array of experience as an educator and a practitioner to the classroom. She has taught courses in Accounting, Investments, Corporate Finance, Strategy, International Finance and Financial Management.

Kathleen also holds the position of Senior Director of Academic Support at the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business in Chicago, London and Hong Kong in which she prepares students of Chicago Booth Executive MBA program for the rigors of Chicago’s quantitative approach to finance, economics, statistics, and marketing.

Her professional experience includes auditing and tax consulting at Ernst & Young, LLP and forensic accounting consulting at Chicago Partners.

Kathleen graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics in 1990 and a MBA in 1994. She passed the Unified C.P.A. examination in 1994 and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Academic Areas

  • Strategy and Leadership

2024 - 2025 Course Schedule

Number Course Title Quarter
42001 Competitive Strategy 2024 (Autumn)
42800 Competitive Strategy 2025 (Winter)
42805 Integrated Strategic Management 2025 (Spring)
42715 Strategy Simulation: Creating Value in Complex and Ambiguous Settings 2025 (Winter)