She is currently teaching at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies while on leave from the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University, where she is an adjunct professor of management.

Mann has received the Federal Reserve’s special achievement award and was recognized at Vanderbilt for excellence in teaching.

McCulloch says she would “love to add her” to the Brandeis faculty.

Mann, a Lexington, Mass. native, says that returning to Harvard as a professor “has crossed [her] mind a number of times,” especially since her family still lives in the area.

“It’s a tough place to get an offer, but I would come back to the Kennedy School or the Business School if there were a reasonable offer,” she says.

But for now, Mann says she is enjoying the opportunities that her work at the Institute provides.

She recently received a $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to fund her work and research.

With her husband’s 25th reunion and WHRB’s 50th reunion behind her, Mann says she is excited to reunite with members of her class.

“For my husband’s 25th, we weren’t sure we were going to go, but we had a blast,” she says. “Even with people you weren’t particularly good friends with 25 years ago, you do have a common, automatic bond.”

—Staff writer Jenifer L. Steinhardt can be reached at steinhar@fas.harvard.edu.