FACULTY PROFILE

Valerie Y. Suslow

Associate Dean for Degree Programs

Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

Prof. Suslow holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University (1984) and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley (1979). She was a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1987-88. In 1994 and 1995 she was the Program Director of the Business School's Quantitative Skills Workshop for incoming MBAs. Professor Suslow served as the Business School's first Academic Director of the Evening MBA Program from September 1995 to July 1999.  Professor Suslow served as the Business School's first Academic Director of the Evening MBA Program from September 1995 to July 1999, and was appointed as Associate Dean for Degree Programs, effective July 1, 2007.

Professor Suslow's current research centers on international cartels, both historical and modern, and on the renewed interest by antitrust authorities in prosecuting international cartels.  Her recent publications on this topic have appeared in World Economy, Antitrust Law Journal, and Journal of Economic Literature. She is a senior editor of the Antitrust Law Journal.

Since joining the Ross School of Business, Professor Suslow has taught the Applied Microeconomics core course in the BBA, MBA, and Executive MBA programs, the Business and Government elective in the BBA program, the Competitive Tactics MBA elective, and a PhD course on International Cartels. She also taught the Quantitative Skills Workshop for MBAs and Executive MBAs.  She received the Victor L. Bernard Teaching Leadership Award in 2004.  Professor Suslow is a co-author of the Microeconomics Study Guide (2005) to accompany the microeconomics textbook by Robert Pindyck and Daniel Rubinfeld, and in 1997 participated in creating Quantitative Skills Interactive, a CD-ROM for prospective MBAs.

Professor Suslow's vita in PDF format.

internet

suslow@umich.edu

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telephone

734-763-4510 (Office)

734-936-0279 (Fax)

postal address

Prof. Valerie Y. Suslow

University of Michigan Ross School of Business

701 Tappan St.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

office

Prof. Suslow's office is located on the 3rd floor of Ross, room R3200.