Douglas Perry

Douglas Perry

Associate Professor, Business Administration, and Economics Assistant Professor & Executive Director of the Leadership Institute, Franciscan University of Steubenville

dperry@franciscan.edu

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Overview

Doug Perry, JD, serves as the founding executive director of the Leadership Institute and as Assistant Professor in the department of Accounting, Business Administration, and Economics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Perry received his juris doctor degree from Cornell Law School in 1988, where he served as editor of the Cornell Law Review. He began his legal and corporate career in Washington, D.C., as an associate for Jones Day. In 1993, he joined Fried Frank, where he was elevated to equity partnership in 1999. There, he specialized in reviewing and successfully negotiating and litigating multi-million-dollar claims, defending companies against civil claims, and representing business in international business transactions and trade matters. He later became a partner in the national law firm of Sheppard Mullin, before joining Honeywell International Inc. in 2003. At Honeywell, Perry served as the V.P. for Global Compliance, where he oversaw the compliance function of a multinational Fortune 100 company with over 130,000 employees. Perry retired from Honeywell in May 2019 and resides with his wife, Heather, and their five children outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Experience

Eight years of experience in design engineering and finite element analysis in the metals, defense, and aerospace industries. More than 15 years of marketing leadership experience in the engineering software industry with Dassault Systèmes (Abaqus), Ansys, and Siemens (Femap). Since 2006, has taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in marketing, management, international business, and strategy, with extensive use of case teaching and simulations in upper-level and MBA courses. Currently serves as Director of Business Education Excellence and Accreditation and previously served as Director of the MBA Program. Since 2017, has led the business department’s IACBE accreditation efforts, including initial accreditation in 2019 and successful reaffirmation in 2026. Served as Board President of AIM Women’s Center, a pregnancy resource center in Steubenville. Under Activities, please have it changed to read: Research interests include business ethics and Catholic Social Thought, strategic relationships, product and service development, integrated marketing communications (IMC), and global marketing. Recent scholarship focuses on generative AI literacy and the effective integration of AI into marketing education, including conference presentations and proceedings in 2025 and 2026. Developing and implementing structured approaches to generative AI use in undergraduate and graduate marketing courses.