
Brigitte Muehlmann
Dr. Muehlmann, Professor and Babson Research Scholar, teaches financial and sustainability reporting and analysis and co-teaches Doing Business Globally: Highways and Landmines. An accountant by profession, she is an entrepreneurial leader at heart. Her extensive research has been published in Scientometrics, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Issues in Accounting Education, and various Tax and Audit journals. She also writes the column “Email from Boston” for the German-language CFO aktuell magazine.
Brigitte has been recognized with many teaching awards, including the Mark Chain/Federation of Schools of Accountancy Graduate Teaching Innovation Award, the American Taxation Association/Deloitte Teaching Innovation Award, as well as the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Educator Award and the Competitive Manuscript Award in forensic accounting, as well as others. Dr. Muehlmann serves as the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section representative on the Council of the American Accounting Association, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Fiscal Association, USA Branch. Prior to her work in academia, she worked with Babson alumni when she transferred from Ernst & Young’s Vienna office to the entrepreneurial services team in Boston. She was a member of the global tax team at PwC in Boston and the strategy practice at A.T. Kearney in New York.
A dual Austrian-American citizen, she holds Ph.D. and MSBA degrees from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), a Master of Science in Taxation, as well as the CPA, CMA, CFM, CVA, and Transformational Neurocoaching credentials.