Professor Shanley joined the Krannert faculty in 1999. He had been an associate professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1993-99), a visiting professor at Northwestern (1991-93), and an assistant professor of policy and organizational behavior in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago (1986-91). He was an instructor at Fairfield University's School of Business (1984-86) and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (1982-84).
His publications include Exploiting a Cost Advantage and Coping with a Cost Disadvantage (with D. Besanko and D. Dranove), Management Science (forthcoming).