Since earning his Ph.D. at Cornell, John Hannon has had the honor of teaching MBA and Undergraduate Entrepreneurship & Strategy courses at seven world-class universities.

He also has significant personal entrepreneurial experience in the Education, Hospitality, Sports, and Entertainment industries myself. In fact, he always tells his students that producing films and owning a motel have given him the best management education he could have ever imagined - since he was personally responsible for every aspect of the business from strategy to sales to marketing to accounting to finance to operations to HR!

Dr. Hannon has a proven track record as an excellent teacher, researcher, and company builder. He consistently earns top 10% teaching evaluations - and he frequently has the highest rated MBA courses. He has authored twenty plus academic papers including eight that were published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals. He has also developed and written several entrepreneurship case studies.

Recently, he created several new and innovative multimedia resources. One is Boom Productions, an entrepreneurship-focused feature film (100 min). In addition, he has produced over twenty short films (5 min each) for McGraw-Hill Education. Professors in Business Law and Entrepreneurship classes around the globe are currently using all of these films in their classes.

As the Founding Director of the University at Buffalo Entrepreneurship Program, he had the pleasure of teaching and impacting 30% of the program's students over 10 years. Nearly 20 MBA driven businesses were birthed, many of which consistently generate over a million dollars of revenue annually. Not surprisingly, numerous international students went back to their home countries (including Singapore, Brazil, Canada, & China) and started successful businesses there, too.

One highly innovative US company that was started from scratch by students he taught and mentored had a $45 million exit (with no venture capital obligations). Another, where he placed his students as employees #3 & #4, was recently acquired for $220 million. He has also advised and assisted dozens of successful university-driven spin outs.

Given Dr. Hannon's deep experience as a professor in academia, as an entrepreneur, and as an executive in the private sector (with Fortune 500 firms), he is adept and comfortable in any environment: from classrooms to boardrooms to laboratories to farms to factories.