Susan Hanlon, D.B.A.

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Education:

• August, 1989 University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
  Degree: Doctor of Business Administration
• May, 1983 Kent State University, Kent, OH
  Degree: Master of Business Administration
• May, 1977 Grove City College, Grove City, PA
  Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Biography

Professional & Academic Experience:

Academic Experience

• The University of Akron, Akron, OH (October 2009 - Present)
  Title: Acting Assistant Dean
  College of Business Administration

• The University of Akron, Akron, OH (1990 - Present)
  Title: Associate Professor
  Department of Management
  College of Business Administration

• Case Western Reserve University (January - August 2001)
  Weatherhead School of Management
  Cleveland, OH
  Title: Research Scholar

• The University of Akron, Akron, OH (1998 - 1999)
  Title: Interim Director,
  Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
  College of Business Administration

• The University of Akron, Akron, OH (1997 - 2006)
  Title: Director, Center for Family Business
  Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
  College of Business Administration

• Memphis State University, Memphis, TN (1986 - 1989)
  Title: Teaching Assistant/ Research Assistant/Part-time Instructor

• Dyke College, Cleveland, OH (1983 - 1985)
  Title: Management Instructor/Acting Director, Business Administration Division

Courses Taught

• Management: Principles and Concepts (Honors)
• Human Resource Staffing and Selection
• Management and Organizational Behavior (Graduate)
• Management of Organization Transformation (Graduate)
• Career Orientation
• Data Analysis for Managers (Graduate)
• Human Resource Systems for Managers (Graduate)

  Teaching Interests:

  • Management Principles
  • Selection and Staffing
  • Organization Transformation

  Research Interests:

  • Psychological capital
  • Management development
  • Non-traditional rewards
  • Collaborative processes

  Community Outreach

  • Goodwill Industries Board of Directors 2010-2011

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Research Accomplishments

Recent Publications:

REFEREED ARTICLES

• Figler, R. and Hanlon, S.C. (in press). Management development and the unconscious from an analytical psychology framework. Journal of Management Development, (27).
• Poza, E.J., Hanlon, S.C., & Kishida, R. 2004. Does the family business interaction Factor represent a resource or a cost?. Family Business Review, 17 (2): 99-118.
• Hanlon , S.C., and Figler, R. (2002). An unlikely topic in an unlikely setting: Poetry in the MBA classroom. Journal of the Academy of Business Education, 3, 67-74.
• Dilts, J. C., and Hanlon, S.C. (2002). Impact of entrepreneurial orientation and Environmental management on firm performance: A contingency framework. Marketing Management Journal, 12, 32-48.
• Lado, A.A., Boyd, N.G., & Hanlon ,S.C. (1997). Competition, cooperation, and the search for economic rents: A syncretic model. Academy of Management Review, 22 (1), 110-141

INVITED ARTICLES (non-refereed)

• Hanlon, S.C. (2000). Board doesn’t fit?: Try an alternative on for size. Inside Business, August, 62-63.

PRESENTATIONS

• Hanlon, S.C. (2002). Invited speaker. Family business compensation practices and attitudes. Presented in The Next Generation program, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (May).
• Hanlon, S.C. (1999) Invited member of panel on innovative family business programming, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, San Diego, CA.
• Hanlon, S.C. and Klimczak, T. (1998). Compensation in family-owned businesses, presented at a workshop sponsored by The University of Akron Center for Family Business.
• Hanlon, S.C. (1998). Realigning work, rewards, and organization design for the 21st century: Practice and concepts, presented at the AIESEC Management in the 21st Century Conference at the Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia.

 

Awards:

• 2008 Dean’s Service Excellence Award
• 2003 Winner of CBA Chili Cook-Off
• 1992 Academy of Management Personnel Human Resources Division Outstanding Paper Award recipient for paper presented at the 1992 Academy of Management Meeting.
• 1991 George and Sara McCune Best Paper Award recipient for article published in Group and Organization Studies in 1991.
• Delta Sigma Phi Honorary Faculty Initiate, 1991. Theta Kappa Chapter, The University of Akron.
• Phi Kappa Phi, member, 1988.
• Beta Gamma Sigma, member, 1987.