Michelle Hanlon

Michelle Hanlon has won a 2020 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for her work teaching on campus and/or remotely. Hanlon won the award along with fellow Sloan faculty members Kara Blackburn, Vivek Farias, Alexandre Jacquillat, Miro Kazakoff, Ben Shields, and Rodrigo Verdi. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices. The awards were co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year, students submitted a total of 487 nominations for 232 faculty and instructors, and 30 winners were selected by Dean of Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, with help from MIT Open Learning staff. 

Michelle Hanlon has won the 2020 Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association. This annual reward recognizes “uniqueness and magnitude of contribution to accounting education, practice and/or future accounting research” from among works published 5-15 years prior. Hanlon’s winning paper, co-authored with Scott D. Dyreng (Duke Fuqua) and Edward L. Maydew (UNC Kenan-Flagler), is entitled “Long-Run Corporate Tax Avoidance” (The Accounting Review, Vol. 83, No. 1, Jan. 2008).

Michelle Hanlon and Nemit Shroff have received the 2017 American Tax Association (ATA) Outstanding Manuscript Award. This annual award recognizes a significant contribution to the tax literature published during the three prior calendar years. The winning paper, co-authored with John R. Graham (Duke University Fuqua School of Business professor) and Terry Shevlin (University of California, Irvine Paul Merage School of Business professor), is entitled “Incentives for Tax Planning and Avoidance: Evidence from the Field.”

Michelle Hanlon was designated as a 2020 Presidential Scholar by the president of the American Accounting Association (AAA). Hanlon delivered a commissioned Presidential Research Lecture as a plenary speaker at the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting of the AAA in August. The Accounting Review will publish her talk, which was entitled "The Possible Weakening of Financial Accounting from Tax Reforms,” as part of the Presidential Research Lecture series, by request of the AAA Board of Directors.

Michelle Hanlon has won an MIT Sloan School Outstanding Teacher Award for the 2020-2021 academic year.  Arathi Mehrotra in Managerial Communication also won an Outstanding Teacher Award.  Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations. Deputy Dean Michael Cusumano thanked the winners of this year's teaching awards for "exemplifying the dedication to pedagogical excellence that is so central to our mission at MIT Sloan."