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Michael Kraten, CPA, PhD

Michael Kraten, CPA, PhD Michael Kraten is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in Boston, where he teaches the capstone course in ethics, leadership, global business planning, and enterprise risk management. Dr. Kraten's research specialty involves the use of communication technologies for communication activities; he is currently conducting outsourcing contract negotiation simulations with a network of academic institutions in the US, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Dr. Kraten is a Certified Public Accountant who spent eight years in the auditing, accounting, and consulting divisions of Deloitte & Touche and BDO Seidman, the second and fifth largest public accounting firms in the world, respectively. He resigned a consulting partnership at BDO in 1995 to become co-founder and President of Enterprise Management Corporation (EMC), a consulting firm now based in Connecticut with centers of excellence in negotiation, entrepreneurship, and social policy. Dr. Kraten has earned a PhD in behavioral and managerial accounting from the University of Connecticut. He previously earned an MPPM in public and private management from Yale University, and a BBA in public accounting from Baruch College-The City University of New York.