Faculty Profile

Karen Hallows Lecturer Ph.D. University of Nebraska M.A.T. Purdue University 4464 Van Munching Hall Phone: 301 405-1058 Email: khallows@rhsmith.umd.edu

Karen Hallows currently teaches business finance, international finance and the MBA valuation elective. She has published in academic and trade journals in the areas of the economics of education, financial management education, and international business education. Currently, her research is focusing on case writing in financial management. She taught finance at George Mason University from 1998-2011 and was the academic director of the Executive MBA program from 2008-2011. In 2009, she was awarded one of six GMU University-wide Teaching Excellence Awards and she has received several other School of Management teaching awards while at GMU. Dr. Hallows has led MBA and EMBA short-term study abroad courses to China, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Russia, Hungary, Austria, England, Germany, Czech Republic, Australia, Russia, Morocco, France, Spain, Chile, Argentina, and Peru. Each year from 2003 - 2009, she conducted a week-long EMBA financial markets residency in New York City. She has conducted many finance executive education seminars and has provided consulting services for corporate and government participants. She served as the Academic Director of the Ford Foundation Business Journalist 4-week summer program held at the University of Missouri from 1987-2000.

Joined Smith: August 2011. Previously at George Mason University from 1998-2011, American University, 1995-1997, worked for a Congressman on Capitol Hill from 1993-1995, and the University of Missouri from 1987-1993.