{"id":6788,"date":"2019-09-10T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2019-09-10T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T18:22:57","slug":"glenn-hodges-from-business-professional-to-business-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/resources\/faculty-spotlight\/glenn-hodges-from-business-professional-to-business-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Hodges: From Business Professional to Business Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player_1565613919\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2353281\/sp\/235328100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/43278251\/partner_id\/2353281?iframeembed=true&amp;playerId=kaltura_player_1565613919&amp;entry_id=1_ssns1m8p\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay ; fullscreen ; encrypted-media *\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Shout \u201cGo Green!\u201d and Glenn Hodges will respond with an\nemphatic, \u201cGo White!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this \u201chuge Spartan supporter,\u201d the Michigan State University pride runs deep, as it wasn\u2019t all that long ago that the Assistant Professor of Management and Director of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/programs\/degrees\/ms-management-strategy-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\">Master of Science in Management, Strategy and Leadership<\/a> program in MSU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/about\/michigan-state-universitys-eli-broad-college-of-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Broad College of Business<\/a> was an MSU undergraduate student pursuing a major in marketing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn fact, I have the opportunity to teach one of the courses\nthat I took back when I was an undergrad,\u201d Hodges says with a smile. \u201cI&#8217;m very\nhappy to also have the opportunity to work with graduate students now through\nthe online and Executive MBA programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hodges\u2019 love for all things MSU is \u201csomething I convey to\nall my students, that I&#8217;m truly proud to be a Spartan and that it&#8217;s a special\ncommunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether the students are young undergrads sitting in a classroom on campus or the working professionals and business leaders participating in the online Master of Science in Management, Strategy and Leadership program (MSMSL), Hodges makes a point to emphasize that \u201cthey\u2019re part of that community just like I am. We have different roles. My role is now teaching, theirs is learning. But it really makes for a great atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bridging the Academic and the Professional<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the period between his MSU undergrad work and his MSU faculty\nrole lays a 20-plus-year career as a manager and strategist with corporate\ntitans such as Coca-Cola and Chrysler. Hodges\u2019 decision to transition from the\nranks of Fortune 500 companies into academia wasn\u2019t a plan B choice, but a\nlong-term goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was something that I&#8217;d known I&#8217;d wanted to do for\nmany years,\u201d he explains. \u201cActually, before I did my PhD, I had already decided\nthat I wanted to have a career in business and then after my career in business,\nI wanted to go back into the academic environment so that I could share the\nknowledge that I had gained, both from an academic standpoint as well as from a\nprofessional standpoint with students.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hodges\u2019\ndepth of professional experience not only provides a unique perspective to his\nwork as an academic, it also provides his students with additional professional\ninsight. As Hodges explains, &#8220;I&#8217;ve actually personally seen many of\nthe experiences or many of the issues that are addressed in various management\ntexts.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In ensuring the MSMSL program continuously bridges the academic research of leadership and its professional application, Hodges mines his own experience, and that of the program\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/faculty\/strategic-leadership-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">faculty thought leaders<\/a>, while also \u201clooking out into the external environment, interfacing with CEOs and other top executives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSMSL students also serve as an invaluable bridge between the\nacademic and professional applications of leadership as they collaborate with\nfaculty and with one another in the leadership laboratory that is the online\nprogram. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI interface with a lot of students each semester and I definitely listen to their issues and their problems and their challenges that they have in their actual working environments,\u201d explains Hodges. \u201cThese are things we end up discussing throughout the course of the year and the other professors in the MSMSL program are doing the same.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fostering Collaborative Learning with Diverse Leaders<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With an emphasis on participatory learning within an active <a href=\"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/online-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">online leadership community<\/a>, students play a pivotal role in creating the program experience for themselves and their classmates by sharing their own expertise, workplace examples and career goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty diverse in this program,\u201d says Hodges. \u201cSomeone\n25 or 26 is using this as an opportunity to show potential. They plan to move\nup and [this] signals to others they take career and life goals seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA mid-career professional, especially in Fortune 500\ncompanies where you have to have a master\u2019s degree to even apply, they\u2019re looking\nat that knowledge and credentials. Late career, 45 plus, they\u2019re thinking about\nstaying relevant. They want to continue investing in themselves, demonstrating\nthey\u2019re still interested and engaged, and honing those higher management skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter what career stage the M.S. in Management, Strategy\nand Leadership students find themselves at, their level of success depends on\ntwo important factors, according to Hodges: drive and dedication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe drive part is something that&#8217;s innate,\u201d he says. \u201cSo you&#8217;ve got that drive to move forward with your career, and that helps lead to the other piece, which is the dedication because if you&#8217;re not dedicated to reading the materials, attending the live lectures, doing all the homework, interfacing with the other students in the program, you&#8217;re not going to make it work the way you would like to. So, if you&#8217;ve got that drive, and you are dedicated to doing those things that need to be done, then you should have a very high level of success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Join the online community of leaders in the M.S. in Management, Strategy and Leadership program.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/programs\/degrees\/ms-management-strategy-leadership\/\" style=\"background-color:#0db14b\">Get Program Info<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shout \u201cGo Green!\u201d and Glenn Hodges will respond with an emphatic, \u201cGo White!\u201d For this \u201chuge Spartan supporter,\u201d the Michigan State University pride runs deep, as it wasn\u2019t all that long ago that the Assistant Professor of Management and Director of the Master of Science in Management, Strategy and Leadership program in MSU\u2019s Broad College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":6803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-spotlight","category-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/Glenn-Hodges-Video-Splash-Screen.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8xwI-1Lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6812,"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/6812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bisk-preprod.go-vip.co\/msu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}