Michelle L. Hanlon

Michelle L. Hanlon is the Howard W. Johnson Professor and Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Professor Hanlon has taught undergraduates, MBA students, Executive MBA students, and Masters of Finance students. She is the winner of the 2021 Outstanding MBA Teacher Award, the 2020 MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Award, and the 2013 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT Sloan.

Professor Hanlon’s research focuses primarily on the intersection of financial accounting and taxation. She has published research studies in all of the top accounting and finance journals and the leading field journals in taxation in accounting and economics. She has won many awards for her research including the Distinguished Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association, being named a Presidential Scholar by the American Accounting Association, and many others. Professor Hanlon has served on several editorial boards and served as one of the senior editors at the Journal of Accounting and Economics for over 15 years.  Professor Hanlon is a co-author on two other textbooks: Financial Accounting, entering its seventh edition, and Intermediate Accounting, entering its fourth edition. She has testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and twice to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means about tax and accounting issues. She served as a U.S. delegate to the American-Swiss Young Leaders Conference in 2010 and worked as an Academic Fellow at the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee in 2015. She served on the Tax Expenditure Commission for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and serves on the academic advisory board to the International Tax Policy Forum, Washington, DC.

She earned her doctorate degree at the University of Washington. Prior to joining MIT, she was a faculty member at the University of Michigan. She worked at KPMG prior to earning her PhD.