Mike Hanus | Slover Linett Strategies

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Mike Hanus manages research and assessment projects, transforming findings into strategic insights for colleges, universities, and professional schools across the US. He has been a linchpin of the firm’s ongoing work with the University of Chicago and especially its Booth School of Business, and also manages engagements with Columbia University and other leading institutions.

Mike has been part of the Slover Linett team since 2005, initially in a freelance capacity and from 2007 to 2011 as a research analyst. He brings academic training in statistics, survey design, and data interpretation as well as professional experience in all aspects of survey research, from planning and sampling design to report writing.

Prior to joining the firm, Mike was a research associate at Richard Day Research, where he managed social and market research studies in mass transit, financial services, and pharmaceuticals. He also worked as an analyst in a healthcare consulting firm.

Mike earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies and a B.A. from the University of Michigan, where he triple-majored in economics, political science, and Russian & East European Studies.

In the arts, audience-centered business models start with the art, not the business

In my last post, I asked where the consumers are in the Colorado symphony’s new “customer-driven” business model and promised a few examples of ways arts groups are getting audiences into the picture a little more creatively. It’s about not thinking of them as consumers or audiences in the first place, but as collaborators.