Dr. Susanne Cannon

Dr. Susanne Cannon

Curriculum Vitae

Working Papers

• Is there a market for partial corporate control? Evidence from REIT
• REITs and Their Management:
  An Analysis of Organizational Structure, Performance, and Management Compensation
• Risk and Return in the U.S. Housing Market:
  A Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing Approach

Short Biography

Susanne Cannon received her Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Texas in 1991. She joined the faculty at DePaul in 1990. Dr. Cannon's research interests have recently been focused on the impact of technology on real estate analysis, practice, and pedagogy, and she has been a featured speaker at local, national and international professional meetings on that topic.

Her research interests also include issues of organizational structure, performance and management compensation in financial institutions and regulated industries; real estate portfolio allocation; and corporate real estate. She was brought on as the third author for the complete editorial revision of the Fifth Edition of Modern Real Estate, the leading real estate principles textbook. She has authored articles appearing in the Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Financial Education, Real Estate Finance, Texas Business Review, Business Geographic's, and GeoInfo Systems.

Professor Cannon teaches courses in real estate analysis and investment at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as the introductory corporate finance course in the undergraduate curriculum. The real estate courses include an introduction to geographic information system software as well as extensive use of CD-ROM and online databases. She was instrumental in the MBA and MSF programs of DePaul's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business being certified by the Appraisal Institute as an alternate route to the MAI designation, and she directs that program. She has coordinated and taught a series of week-long seminars on housing and development finance in Warsaw, Poland for PKO-BP, a large state owned savings bank.

Before completing her doctorate she held posts as director of real estate for the Mexican American Unity Council (a San Antonio community development corporation), and as Committee Clerk for the Texas Senate Committee on Financial Institutions. She has been active in community affairs, including appointment by Austin's mayor to serve as Chairman of the Urban Renewal Board, as a member of the Austin/San Antonio Corridor Commission Transportation Task Force. As a board member of Lambda Alpha International she coordinated a joint effort of the Chicago chapters of the American Institute of Architects, Lambda Alpha, and the Urban Land Institute to study and make recommendations for the preservation and re-use of the historic market square in the town of Pullman. She was awarded the Solon Beman award by the Historic Pullman Association for that work. Currently she serves as president of Ely Chapter, Lambda Alpha International, and she has co-chaired the organization's annual symposium for 1998 (New Urbanism and the City) and 1999 (Shaping Community).