Jon m. hawes, Ph.D.

Professor, Marketing
Founding Director of Sales & Negotiations Center
ISU College of Business

Education

  • B.S.:  Indiana State University (marketing and economics), 1973
  • M.B.A.:  Indiana State University (business administration), 1975 
  • Ph.D.:  University of Arkansas (marketing), 1981
  • Professional Certification:  Certified Sales Executive (CSE), 1994, re-certified in 2000, Accreditation Institute of Sales & Marketing

Past Experience

  • Former and founding director of the Fisher Institute for Professional Selling and Distinguished Professor of Marketing, University of Akron
  • Founding member of University Sales Center Alliance (2001); founding member of Professional Selling Network (1997)

Teaching Interests

  • Sales management
  • Business negotiations
  • Professional selling
  • Marketing strategy

research interests

  • Developing trust within buyer-seller relationships
  • Sales management
  • Sales and marketing education

Selected Awards & Honors

  • McGraw-Hill/Irwin National Sales Teacher of the Year, 2009
  • Winner of Prentice Hall's "Solomon-Marshall-Stuart Award for Innovative Excellence in Marketing Education," American Marketing Association's Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group, 2006.
  • The article "Trust Earning Perceptions of Buyers and Sellers" was identified as the most cited article in the history of the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management,  2005.
  • Recipient of the 2005 NOCHE Award for Excellence in Teaching, Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education.
  • Winner of the Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Award, The University of Akron, 2005.
  • Winner of the Distinguished Sales Educator Award, University Sales Center Alliance, 2005
  • One of four international finalists, Sherwin Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, Society for Marketing Advances, 2004
  • One of four winners, AMS Outstanding Teachers in Marketing Award Competition, Academy of Marketing Science, 2004.
  • One of four finalists and ultimately selected as the Winner, Hormel Master Teacher Award, Marketing Management Association, 2004.
  • Outstanding Service Award, National Conference in Sales Management, 2000, 2001, 2002.
  • Fisher Institute named by Sales and Marketing Management magazine as one of the top 6 undergraduate sales programs in the nation (1996) and as one of the top 5 graduate sales programs in the nation (2001); ranked 19th overall worldwide for sales research, 8th for programs without Ph.D. programs by Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management (2000); ranked 26th overall worldwide for industrial marketing research, 11th for programs without Ph.D. programs by Industrial Marketing Management (2001); third program in the nation (2003) to be certified by the Professional Society for Sales & Marketing Training.
  • Selected by the Alumni Association as the 1991 winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award at The University of Akron for a lifetime of exceptional achievements in research.

Recent Research

  • Timothy J. Wilkinson, Andrew R. Thomas, and Jon M. Hawes, "Managing Relationships with Chinese Joint Venture Partners," Journal of Global Marketing, 22 (Issue 2, 2009), 109-120.
  • Jon M. Hawes and Paulette Polley Edmunds, "A Case Study of Exceptional Achievement in Selling: The Raymond D. Meyo Story," Journal of Selling and Major Account Management, 8 (Winter 2008), 45-50.
  • Andrew R. Thomas, Timothy J. Wilkinson, and Jon M. Hawes, "Making It in China," The Wall Street Journal -- Sloan Management Review, (May 12, 2008), R11. Also available online.
  • Linda M. Orr and Jon M. Hawes, Company and Customer Relations, (with Linda M. Orr), Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
  • Dale M. Lewison and Jon M. Hawes, "Student Target Marketing Strategies for Universities," Journal of College Admission, Number 196 (Summer 2007), 14-19.
  • Jon M. Hawes, Anne K. Rich, and Scott M. Widmier, "Assessing the Development of the Sales Profession," Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 24 (Winter 2004), 27-37.

Jon Hawes, Ph.D.

Contact

Jon M. Hawes
Professor of Marketing
Director, Sales & Negotiations Center
Room 912
Scott College of Business
Tel: 812-237-2286
Cell:  812-870-0214
Email:  Jon.Hawes@indstate.edu
Fax: 812-237-8133