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    Name: Susan C. Hanlon
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Management
Office: CBA 347
Phone: 330-972-7685
Fax: 330-972-7037
Email: shanlon@uakron.edu
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Department of Management
College of Business Administration
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325-4801
Curriculum Vitae: Download in PDF format
   
       
         
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

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Professional & Academic Experience:
  • Academic experience

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

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

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

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

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

    • 1983 - 1985 Dyke College, Cleveland, OH
      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)



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Teaching Interests:

  • Management Principles; Selection and Staffing; Organization Transformation
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Research Interests:

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



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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.

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