Dr. Anne L. BALAZS

Dr. Anne L. Balazs became the first female dean of the John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of
Business and Innovation in 2018.  She is an alumna of Smith College (A.B. Economics) and
earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.  
Prior to her academic career, she worked at Fidelity Investments as a registered representative
and assistant legal product manager.  She has held faculty positions at the University of
Oklahoma, Mississippi University for Women, and Eastern Michigan University, where she
served as Department Chair of Marketing, Interim Dean of the College of Business, Interim AVP
of Graduate Studies and President of EMU’s Women in Philanthropy.   
In 2013-14, she was an ACE Fellow at Bowling Green State University and the University of
Toledo.  She is President of the MidAmerican Business Deans Association and serves on the
board of the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Balazs is a member
of UToledo’s Women and Philanthropy and the Leadership Circle for Girl Scouts of Western
Ohio. 
Her research on value congruency, elderly consumer behavior, health care advertising, and
retailing has appeared in the Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Consumer Affairs,
Psychology & Marketing, and the Journal of Business Research and has been funded by the
Swedish Institute, the International Council of Shopping Centers, and the Richard D. Irwin
Publishing Company.