FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Dr. Susan S. Fiorito currently serves as the chair and Jim
Moran Professor of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and
Information Systems for the College of Business at
Florida State University. She has taught at the university
level since the early 1980s. Fiorito received her doctorate
from Oklahoma State University and completed a
dissertation on the financial performance and marketing
strategies of selected small apparel stores. She has owned
four apparel, leather goods and turquoise jewelry stores
in Atlanta and a wholesale leather goods company from
the mid-1970s until 1980.
Susan S. Fiorito
Tallahassee, Fla.
In addition to her nearly 25-year teaching career at FSU,
Fiorito has also taught and conducted research at the
University of Iowa, Florida International University and
the University of Stirling in Scotland, where she taught
graduate-level courses and developed a module for their
Executive MBA program. Fiorito’s research focuses on
retailing, small business management and buying and has
been featured in a variety of academic journals, including
International Journal of Research and Distribution
Management, the Journal of Retailing, and
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. She has received
research grants totaling nearly $170,000. In addition,
Fiorito taught summer study-abroad courses in Milan,
Paris and London for six years and spent one year on
sabbatical at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
Fiorito has received three University teaching awards and
was selected as one of three inaugural Jim Moran
Institute Faculty Fellows in 2010. She served for two
years as the first female president of the American
Collegiate Retailing Association, and she is currently the
organization’s treasurer. Fiorito was appointed to the
Florida Retail Federation Board in 2003 and has served
faithfully since her appointment. Additionally, Fiorito
contributes to several university, college and department
committees.