Michelle Hanlon is the Howard W. Johnson Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Her research focuses on taxation and the intersection of taxation and financial accounting. She has published in the top accounting and finance journals, among others. She has won several awards for her research including the American Accounting Association Distinguished Contribution to the Literature Award and the Outstanding Manuscript Award for the American Taxation Association.

Michelle has taught introductory and intermediate financial accounting and currently teaches Taxes and Business Strategy. She is a co-author on three textbooks. She has won several awards for her teaching including the Sloan Outstanding Teacher Award, the MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Award, and the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

She has been an editor at the Journal of Accounting and Economics since 2009.

Michelle has testified in front of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and the U.S. Senate Finance Committee both twice. She worked as an Academic Fellow at the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee for part of 2015. She currently serves on the Tax Expenditure Commission for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.