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Vanessa Hasse

Assistant Professor, International Business

Assistant Professor, International Business

Dr. Hasse's primary research interests focus on foreign subsidiary management at multinational enterprises and organizational responses to performance signals in international contexts, with a particular focus on rare and impactful events. In 2025, she founded The Rare Events Lab to disseminate to scholars, educators, practitioners, and policymakers research-based insights and tools on how to better prepare for and respond to disruptive outlier events. This initiative has been recognized as a Finalist for the 2025 Academy of International Business Teaching Innovation Award.

Her research has been published in top-tier outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Business & Society, and more. She has received international recognition for her work, including as a Winner of the 2023 IM Division Best Paper Award in OB/HRM/OT (AOM) and the 2017 IM Division D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Best Dissertation Award in International Management (AOM). She was further noted as a Finalist for the 2018 International HRM Scholarly Research Award and the 2017 Buckley and Casson AIB Dissertation Award.

Aside from her research, Dr. Hasse has also authored several teaching case studies, which have sold nearly 19,000 copies across 51 countries. Her case "The LEGO Group: A Yellow Brick Road Toward Sustainability?" won the 2024 EFMD Case Competition in the Women in Business category. Dr. Hasse has further co-authored the 9th edition (2025) of the popular textbook "International Management Behavior: Global and Sustainable Leadership", with M.L. Maznevski, H.W. Lane, and R.K. Nielsen.

Dr. Hasse has been recognized internationally as a management educator for her innovations in designing transformative learning experiences. She is the recipient of multiple Teaching Excellence Awards at the Ivey Business School (every year since 2021) and was named a Finalist for both the 2025 and 2021 Academy of International Business Teaching Innovation Awards. 

Furthermore, Dr. Hasse has been a board member at the Academy of International Business-Canada chapter since 2021 and was awarded Best Reviewer Awards by the Academy of Management (2016 (2x), 2017, 2018, 2024) and Academy of International Business (2016).

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