Dr. Karen Shastri is a Clinical Associate Professor of Business Administration at the College of Business Administration and the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include internal management accounting practices and she also works on the topics of costs as they relate to effectiveness in the criminal justice and human services fields. Courses she has recently taught include Managerial Accounting, Strategic Cost Management, Financial Accounting, and Not for Profit and Governmental Accounting at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.