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Faculty
Robert J. Swieringa, PhD
Designated Manager, Cayuga MBA FundRobert J. Swieringa is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson School at Cornell University, where he became the ninth dean on July 1, 1997.
Swieringa served as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from 1986 to 1996. FASB is the key policy-making organization for accounting issues in the United States, and Dean Swieringa gained wide visibility and influence in the corporate community through his work with the group.
He was most recently a professor in the practice of accounting at the Yale School of Management and was a member of the accounting faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Johnson School before he was appointed to the FASB. An outstanding teacher and lecturer, he won the Justice Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching at Cornell and has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his scholarly and professional work. His research interests are in behavioral accounting and corporate financial reporting.
Dean Swieringa is past chair of the Board of Directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council which provides the GMAT, the most widely used assessment test in graduate business studies. Dean Swieringa is a member of the Board of Directors of General Electric. He received his PhD in 1969 from the University of Illinois.
