Susan Perkins rejoined New York University, Stern School of Business as a Visiting Associate Professor of Strategic Management in 2021. She is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Illinois – Chicago where she has previously taught the core Business Strategy and Global Strategy courses in the full-time, part-time, and corporate MBA programs and was voted the “Best MBA Professor” by the Corporate MBA Class of 2019. 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 Executive MBA and MBA-core strategy curriculum. 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 and taught in the executive education programs. Professor Perkins also taught internationally in Europe’s top-ranked MBA Strategy Specialization program at HEC-Paris in France. Professor Perkins first started teaching in 2004 at NYU - Stern School of Business where she currently teaches core and advanced strategy courses across the MBA and Executive Education programs. Professor Perkins was most recently recognized as the “Hall of Fame Professor” by the Initiative for A Competitive Inner City (ICIC) in 2019 for her excellence in executive education teaching. Over the last decade in partnership with the ICCC, she has educated over 3,000 entrepreneurs nationally.