Susan Perkins

Susan Perkins

Joined Stern 2021

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Tisch Hall
40 West Fourth Street, 702
New York, NY 10012

E-mail sperkins@stern.nyu.edu

Biography

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

Academic Background

Ph.D., International Business Strategy
New York University Stern School of Business

M.B.A., International Management
New York University Stern School of Business

M.Phil., Management
New York University Stern School of Business

B.B.A., Marketing
Howard University

Areas of Expertise

Management

  • Corporate Governance
  • Family Businesses
  • Global Expansion
  • Leadership