Susan Perkins

Susan Perkins rejoined New York University Stern School of Business as a Visiting Associate Professor of Strategic Management in the Management and Organizations Department in August 2021.

Her research focuses on corporate governance and leadership roles in organizations to determine how strategic decisions shape organizations and societal-level outcomes. Her research has been published in journals including the Harvard Business Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and the Global Strategy Journal.

Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor Perkins has been an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Illinois – Chicago (UIC), where she has previously taught the core Business Strategy and Global Strategy courses in the full-time, part-time and corporate MBA programs.

Prior to joining UIC, Professor Perkins was on faculty at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management for over a decade in the Management and Organizations department and taught in the EMBA and MBA-core International Business and Markets Program. She was a two-time visiting scholar at MIT - Sloan School of Management in the Organizational Studies (2011–13) and Global Economics and Management (2015 – 2017) departments on the executive education faculty. Professor Perkins also teaches internationally in the top-ranked MBA Strategy Specialization program at HEC-Paris in France. Professor Perkins started teaching International Business Management in 2004 at New York University Stern School of Business in the undergraduate program.

Professor Perkins was most recently recognized as a “Hall of Fame Professor'' by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) in 2019 for her excellence in executive education, teaching Strategic Management to over 3,000 entrepreneurs. She was also voted the “Best MBA Professor'' by the Corporate MBA Class of 2019 at UIC Business.

Professor Perkins received her BBA with honors from Howard University School of Business in Marketing. She received three degrees from NYU Stern including an MBA in International Management ’95, an MPhil in Management ’03 and a PhD in International Business Strategy ’06.

Courses Taught

• Global Strategy
• Strategy I
• Strategy II

Areas of Expertise

• Management
• Corporate Governance
• Family Businesses
• Global Expansion
• Leadership

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business (2001 — 2006)
• Fundação Getulio Vargas / Fundacao Getulio Vargas / FGV
• Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Howard University School of Business
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Selected Publications

• Toosi, N., Perkins, S., Cho, J., and Phillips, K.W. (2020). “Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Female Leadership: A Look at Nations, Organizations, and Teams, Research in Social Issues in Management.“
• Perkins, S. and Phillips, K. W. (2019) “Are Women Better at Leading Diverse Countries Than Men?” Harvard Business Review.
• Perkins, S. (2019). “The Dominance of Pyramidal Business Groups in Latin America Persist,” AIB Insights, Volume, 19(2).
• Perkins, S. and Minefee, I. (2015) “Jeitinho Brasileiro: Adopting Nonmarket Strategies in Brazil,” Routledge Companion to Nonmarket Strategy, Lawton, T.C. and Rajwani, T. (Eds.), Oxford, UK and New York, NY.
• Perkins, S. (2014). “When Does Prior Experience Pay? Institutional Experience and the Case of the Multinational Corporation,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 59(1):145-181.
• Perkins, S., Morck, R. and Yeung, B. (2014). “Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms,” Global Strategy Journal, 4: 310–330.
• Perkins, S. (2014). “Cross-national Variations in Industry Regulation: A Factor Analytic Approach with an Application to Telecommunications, Regulation & Governance,” 8: 149–163.
• Downloadable Data and Appendix
• Perkins, S., Phillips, K.W. and Pearce, N. (2013). “Ethnic Diversity, Gender, and National Leaders,” Journal of International Affairs, 67(1): 85-104.

Notable Honors

• 2020-2021, Faculty Fellowship, UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
• 2018-2019, Best MBA Professor, Corporate MBA Class at UIC Business
• 2016-2018, Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching, UIC Business
• 2011-2013, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology