Training an Effective Global Leader. Hear Wharton’s Perspective.

Now more than ever, it is crucial that executives appreciate the importance of global education, inclusive global leadership, and the necessity to operate with a global mindset.  

Watch Peggy Bishop Lane and Brian Bushee of the Wharton School for a discussion about effective global leadership development and the importance of participating in learning environments that provide rich, diverse perspectives.

Our discussion was inspired by the launch of the new Global Cohort for the Wharton MBA Program for Executives. This program offers a blended learning schedule that provides the convenience of virtual courses with the intentionality of in-person residential weeks. 

This event was moderated by Alex Baranpuria, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer of Ivy Exec.

Dr. Peggy Bishop Lane

Vice Dean of the Wharton MBA Program for Executives and Adjunct Professor of Accounting

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 full-time MBA Program as Deputy Vice Dean of Academic Affairs for 11 years. Professor Lane teaches Introductory Accounting to first-year 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 Republic Bank (now part of Bank America). Professor Lane earned her Ph.D. in Accounting from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Texas Christian University. She previously served on the board of directors of the Graduate Management Admissions Council.

Brian J. Bushee

Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor and Senior Vice Dean of Teaching and Learning

Brian J. Bushee is the Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor and Senior Vice Dean of Teaching and Learning at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and A.B. from Duke University. Before joining Wharton in 2000, he was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.

He has also worked as a Senior Credit Analyst for CoreStates Financial Corp. and as a National Office Researcher for Coopers and Lybrand L.L.P. His research focuses on the impact of information intermediaries - such as institutional investors, sell-side analysts, and the business press - on corporate disclosure decisions and on the stock market pricing of information. His dissertation won the American Accounting Association’s Competitive Manuscript Award. He currently serves as one of the Accounting Track Editors at Management Science and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, and Review of Accounting Studies. 

He teaches an MBA elective called Financial Disclosure Analytics and offers an introductory financial accounting course on Coursera to over 750,000 students worldwide. He has won the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for exemplary teaching at Wharton. Finally, he has served as the President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and currently serves on the AAA Council.