Newswise — The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School has appointed Valerie Suslow as the school’s Vice Dean for Faculty and Research. Suslow will also hold an appointment as a tenured professor with the Carey Business School. She will start her new role as vice dean on August 1, 2015.
“Valerie Suslow is a proven leader and scholar who will enhance our vibrant faculty and school community. Her leadership will strengthen our growing faculty,” said Bernie Ferrari, dean of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.Suslow (at right) will join the Johns Hopkins faculty from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she has served as senior associate dean for MBA Programs, professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, and the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law. Prior to becoming senior associate dean, she held a number of leadership positions with the Ross School faculty.
Suslow’s academic research has focused on the economics of explicit price fixing and cartel operations, specifically the determinants of cartel duration and how organizational features of cartels contribute to their stability. She has also examined the intersection of international cartel operations, antitrust policy, and international trade policy, as well as the effects of cartels on developing countries.
She has authored numerous articles and book chapters and her research has been published in journals including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, The Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, Antitrust Law Journal, and the Journal of International Economic Law. Suslow is a senior editor of the Antitrust Law Journal.
Suslow earned her PhD in economics from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Among the awards she has received are the Victor L. Bernard Faculty Award for Leadership in Teaching from the University of Michigan and the John M. Olin National Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Professor Suslow will replace Phillip Phan, who is stepping down as Executive Vice Dean of the Carey Business School. Phan’s tenure with the Carey Business School dates back to the establishment of the school and includes a term as interim dean in 2011. Phan will remain an active member of the school’s full-time faculty as a professor.
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