Dennis Hanno is the Dean of the Undergraduate School at Babson College and the President’s Endowed Professor of Accounting. Prior to joining Babson, he served for eight years as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Matters in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and as a faculty member there and at Boston College. He received his Bachelors in Business Administration degree with a major in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame, and has a Masters of Science in Accounting degree from Western New England College and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

His primary area of research and teaching is auditing and professional issues in the accounting profession. His research has addressed issues around auditor judgment, corporate governance, and accounting education issues. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Issues in Accounting Education, Behavioral Research in Accounting and several other journals. He is active in several professional organizations, including serving as Chair of the Educators Credential Committee of the Massachusetts Board of Public Accountancy. Among the honors and awards he has received, he has been chosen as the Educator of the Year by the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Dean Hanno is an award-winning teacher who has significant experience in developing innovative curriculum and in the assessment of student learning. He has presented at numerous forums on these topics, including meetings of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the European Foundation for Management Development, and the Assessment Institute. He leads the Babson project on Core Commitments, a national consortium of schools chosen by the Association of American Colleges and Universities to lead the national dialogue on developing social and personal responsibility in students. He also is the Babson representative to the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, the leading global community of organizations dedicated to promoting the next generation of globally responsible leaders. His curriculum innovations include leading the development of several unique global opportunities for students, including a program in Ghana, West Africa. In this program, more than 200 students, faculty and staff have traveled to Ghana since 2000 to promote the development of entrepreneurial activity in remote regions of the country. His contributions to development efforts in Ghana have been recognized both in that country and in the United States.