2010 Research Colloquium Speakers

We are pleased to welcome the following speakers at the 2010 Research Colloquium:

Sophie Bacq
Université Catholique de Louvain

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Sophie Bacq is a Ph.D. Candidate in Management Sciences at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Management Engineering in 2006. Junior researcher at CRECIS (Center for Research in Entrepreneurial Change and Innovative Strategies) since 2006, her current research interests include social entrepreneurs’ characteristics, governance in social entrepreneurial ventures and social entrepreneurship. She published a first article on the topic in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (2010 – forthcoming).

Paul Bloom
Duke University

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Paul N. Bloom is Adjunct Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing in the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he is also serving as the Center’s Faculty Director.  In this role, he is conducting research on how social entrepreneurial organizations can scale their social impact, and teaches a course in “Corporate Social Impact Management”.  Prior to coming to Duke in 2006, he had a long career doing research on how the field of marketing can contribute to societal welfare.  He has examined how marketing thinking can help to design better consumer protection and antitrust policies and has also done considerable research on social marketing, which involves developing strategies to encourage people to engage in more socially-beneficial behaviors (e.g., healthier living).   

Dipankar Chakravarti
The Johns Hopkins University

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Dipankar Chakravarti is Professor of Marketing and Vice-Dean at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.  He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he served as The Ortloff Professor of Business between 1995 and 2008.  He has also taught at Arizona, Duke, and Florida.   Dr.  Chakravarti holds a B.Sc. with Honors in Physics from the University of Calcutta and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University.   Among the most published and cited authors in the scholarly journals in marketing and consumer behavior, he is a former Editor of the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and a Lifetime Fellow and former President of the Society for Consumer Psychology.

Marco Costantino
University of Bari

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Marco Costantino has a master degree in Development Economics and International Cooperation at University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and is a PhD candidate in Economic Geography at  University of Bari. He holds a course in Fair Trade and Social Economics at University of Bari and is member of the Projects Committee (a board having the function of evaluating the compliance of projects with the fair trade criteria) of CTM Altromercato, the leading Italian fair trade import consortium. He is author of a number of fair trade impact studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Pascal Dey
UaS Northwestern

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Dr. Pascal Dey, a sociologist by training, currently works as a project manager at the Business School at the UaS Northwestern Switzerland. He teaches sustainable management in the Erasmus Programme and conducts empirical and theoretical research in the realm of social entrepreneurship, non-profit management and bottom of the pyramid ventures. His research is mostly concerned with the kind of sociality implied by those concepts, the sort of identities they foster, and hence with their totalizing tendencies as well as their (often untapped) emancipatory potential.

Jon Griffith
University of East London and University of Brighton

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Dr. Jon Griffith is a principal lecturer at the University of East London, where he led a postgraduate programme in Social Enterprise from 2001-2006. Dr. Griffith also teaches education policy at the University of Brighton; so, putting the two together, he has combined the interest in how people learn about things like social enterprise - both in relation to what they need to know, and what they want to do.

Roberto Gutiérrez
Universidad de los Andes

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Roberto Gutiérrez has a Ph.D. in Sociology for The Johns Hopkins University and is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, since 1995.  Between 2003 and 2008 he chaired the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN), an alliance of 10 universities throughout Ibero America.  He teaches in the field of strategy and has published academic articles on social entrepreneurship, partnerships, education and sustainable development in journals such as American Sociological Review, Review of Educational Research, Journal of Management Education, Stanford Social Innovation Review and Harvard Business Review América Latina.


Olga Hawn
Duke University

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Olga was born in Kolomna, Russia. She received BA in Economics and MA in International Business from Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics in Moscow, and MSc in Management Research the University of Oxford. She returned to the Plekhanov Academy as a teacher of several management and strategy courses and then proceeded to continue her graduate studies at Duke University's PhD program in Strategy at Fuqua School of Business. Olga is engaged in multidisciplinary research on non-market strategy that includes examining the impact of Dow Jones Sustainability Index; theorizing and evaluating the effect of CSR on the success of international expansion of multinationals from emerging markets; understanding the drivers of successful scaling of Social Enterprise and Social Impact; predicting the diffusion patterns of solar power; and understanding the role of business incubators in emerging markets.

Janelle Kerlin
Georgia State University

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Janelle Kerlin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  Her research focuses on politics and policy related to nonprofit development and operation often from an international perspective.  Her present areas of interest include social enterprise and international NGOs.  She is editor of the book, Social Enterprise: A Global Comparison (Tufts, 2009), and author of a number of journal articles.  She teaches courses on social enterprise, nonprofit advocacy and law, international NGOs, and critical policy issues.  She holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in political science from Syracuse University.

 

G.T. (Tom) Lumpkin
Syracuse University

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G. T. (Tom) Lumpkin is the Chris J. Witting Chair of Entrepreneurship at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University in New York.  His research interests include entrepreneurial orientation, social entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition, family business, and strategy making processes.  He is a globally recognized scholar whose research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Journal of Management. Tom co-edits the Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth series with Jerry Katz and recently co-authored the fifth edition of the textbook Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages with Greg Dess and Alan Eisner.

Toyah Miller
Indiana University

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Dr Toyah Miller received her doctorate in Strategic Management at Texas A&M University. Before earning her doctorate, she worked for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young LLC serving as senior consultant in the telecom and media industry for Fortune 500 firms such as Time Warner Cable, BellSouth, and Citizen's Communications. She was the winner of the 6th Annual Satter (NYU) Conference on Social Entrepreneurs Best Paper Award in 2009 and was given the Best Paper of the Year Award, Journal of Management in 2006.


Alex Murdock
London South Bank University

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Dr Alex Murdock  is Head of Centre for Government and Charity Management at London South Bank University.  Alex researches the intersection of the public, private and third sectors, the voluntary sector compact and stakeholder approaches to organisational strategy.  He is very actively involved in charities and social enterprises.  He is Chair of an Emmaus Social Enterprise  a trustee of Welcare, a charity for children and families. Alex interests are in Italy, France, China and Norway (where he is visiting professor). He has worked at  the Sorbonne, Copenhagen Business School and Brunel University.  Alex qualified as a Probation Officer and was previously  a  senior manager in Social Work .



Alex Nicholls
University of Oxford

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Alex Nicholls MBA is the first lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship, including: the interface between the public and social sectors; organisational legitimacy and governance; the development of social finance markets; and impact measurement and innovation. He is widely published in peer reviewed journals and has done consultancy work for not-for-profits, social enterprises, and the UK government. He is the co-author of a major research book on Fair Trade (with Charlotte Opal, Sage, 2005). His ground-breaking 2006 edition of a collection of key papers on the state of the art of social entrepreneurship globally was published in paperback edition by Oxford University Press in 2008. It is the best selling academic book on the subject globally.

Rob Paton
Open University

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Rob Paton is Professor of Social Enterprise at the Open University.  His on-going research interests concern the measurement of social performance (Managing and Measuring Social Enterprises was published by SAGE in 2003); developments in social investment (on which he is collaborating with Alex Nicholls); organizational and community leadership (through the OBACE project, a collaborative enquiry into the working lives and inner worlds of third sector chief executives); and new modes of work-based learning (on which he has also published extensively).   Recent consultancy has included projects for DIUS (a study of the leadership training available for Faith Leaders and Workers); and for the Carnegie Trust UK Commission on the Future of Civil Society. 

Rory Ridley-Duff
Sheffield Business School

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Dr Rory Ridley-Duff is a Senior Lecturer in the OB/HRM subject group at Sheffield Business School, and is course leader for the forthcoming MSc Social Enterprise and Business Democracy.  After a decade working for an ICT cooperative providing systems to London’s Third and Public Sector, he became a co-founder of Social Enterprise London before establishing an employee-owned business in Yorkshire.  He continues to contribute to practice as a non-executive director of the social firm Viewpoint Research CIC.  For his PhD, he examined the interplay between gender identity and democratisation in three employee-owned businesses, and subsequently did research on social dynamics during a TUPE transfer, and an evaluation of coaching in the NHS.  He is now co-investigator on a 30 month community engagement project funded by the Big Lottery Research Fund. 

Carlo Rossi
Bocconi University

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Dr. Carlo Rossi Chauvenet is a Research Fellow in Italian and European Private Law and Non profit Law at Bocconi University in Milan.  His research is mainly focused on juridical models and corporate governance of non profit entities, including merger and transformation of foundations and NPO.

Dr. Rossi graduated (summa cum laude) in Law from Bocconi University and received a PHD in law at the University of Padua.  He also  studied in the US receiving a Master in Law (LLM) from the New York University School of Law and a Master in Law from the National University of Singapore (NUS).



Madhukar Shukla
XLRI Jamshedpur

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Dr Madhukar Shukla is Professor (OB & Strategic Management) at XLRI Jamshedpur (India), and has a keen research and teaching interest in the development sector and social entrepreneurship.

A member of the Advisory Council of University Network for Social Entrepreneurship (founded by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford University), he was also the Conference Coordinator for the National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship in 2009 and 2010. He was on the Jury for the Microfinance Award ’07, instituted by PlaNet Finance, and has been an assessor for the India NGO Awards 2007, 2008 & 2009. Currently he also serves on the core-team of Aspen Institute’s Teaching Innovation Program (India), which aims to incorporate the socio-environmental content in the management-school education in India.

Brett R. Smith
Miami University

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Brett R. Smith, Ph.D. is the Founding Director, Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  His research interests focus on social entrepreneurship with specific emphases on scaling of social impact, new development models and social entrepreneurship education. In 2008, he won the ASHOKA Award for Pedagogical Innovation at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship for the partnership he developed with Bono’s company to found Edun Live on Campus. He has been invited to speak on social entrepreneurship all over the world including at the United Nations executive meetings in Paris, Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa and a number of international universities. His work in social entrepreneurship has been highlighted in Time, Business Week, Financial Times, CNN, MSNBC and more than 100+ other media outlets.

Dr. Mukesh Sud
Fairfield University

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Mukesh Sud is an Assistant Professor at Fairfield University. He teaches Business Strategy and  Entrepreneurship at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr Sud received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management in 2006 and has previously taught at Augustana College, Illinois. Prior to entering academia Dr Sud was an entrepreneur in Bangalore, India and ran technology companies in the field of Thermal Sprayed Coatings. Dr Sud is a engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),Delhi.  Dr Sud's research is focused on entrepreneurship particularly entrepreneurial failure. Another stream is in social entrepreneurship where he has publications in the Journal of Business Ethics. He has twice received the distinguished research award (2007,2009) from the Allied Academics for his work that has been published in the Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal.

Ermanno Tortia
Trento University

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Appointed lecturer in Economic Policy at Trento University, Department of Economics,  Italy. After having completed the Ph.D. programme Ermanno worked for three years, from 2002 to 2004 as post-doctoral  researcher at the University of Ferrara, Department of Economics, Institutions, Territory. In this period he carried out research work on human resources management practices, incentive systems, and organisational innovations, in industrial firms. Starting from 2005 he was enrolled first as post-doctoral researcher, and then as an appointed lecturer at the University of Trento,  Department of Economics. He also taught Labour Economics at the University of Bologna, in Forlì. Since 2004 he has researched and lectured on the Economics of Cooperative Firms and Social Enterprises . He also worked on the role of cooperative firms and social enterprises in local economic development. Ermanno is also affiliated with EURICSE (European Research Institute for Cooperative and Social Enterprises), which is based in Trento.

Bart Victor
Vanderbilt University

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Professor Bart Victor holds the Cal Turner Chair in Moral Leadership at The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.  He teaches ethics, leadership and change management in the MBA, EMBA, Executive Education, and MaCC programs.  He also leads the Vanderbilt initiative on business and poverty alleviation.   Professor Victor joined the Owen faculty from the Institute for Management Development International (IMD), in Lausanne Switzerland where he was Professor of Management and Director of the Program for Management Development. Prior to IMD, Professor Victor was on the faculties of the University of North Carolina and the University of Nebraska.  Professor Victor currently serves on the board of directors of several healthcare companies and is chair of the board of the Baptist Healthcare System Inc (DBA BH1). He is also a member of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Business and Society.

Christiana Weber
University of Siegen

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Christiana Weber holds the chair for Entrepreneurship and SME Management at the University Siegen, Germany. Christiana Weber researches and consults in (social) entrepreneurship, corporate venture capital, and organization theories. Further, her research interest lies at the intersection of social network theory and innovation management, reciprocity and (inter-)organizational learning as well as knowledge transfer.  Professor Weber teaches Strategy, Organization Theories, Social Network Theories, Innovation Management, International Management, Human Resource Management and (Social) Entrepreneurship. She has taught on the faculty of European Business School, University Hamburg, and University of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany. She is a review member of several academic journals and the author of several books and edited volumes as well as over 25 articles and book chapters.

Amanda Berlan
University of Manchester

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Dr Amanda Berlan is a Research Fellow at the Brookes World Poverty Institute and Sustainable Consumption Institute of the University of Manchester. A Social Anthropologist by training, she has worked extensively on social issues in agriculture with a particular focus on cocoa. Her research interests include Fairtrade, corporate social responsibility, education and child rights and issues relating to productivity and sustainability. She completed a DPhil on child rights in cocoa production in Ghana in 2005. Since then she has consolidated her expertise on cocoa and other crops in West Africa and the Caribbean and is currently working on a new project on agriculture in India.


Debbi D. Brock
Anderson University

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Debbi D. Brock joined Anderson University as Assistant Professor of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2009.  Previously, Brock served as the William and Kay Moore Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Assistant Professor in the Economics and Business department and Director of the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program. Brock is a professional trainer and consultant for various organizations focusing on entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and scaling social impact. Her passion is social entrepreneurship and how students can identify and seize new opportunities to become agents of change.  In 2003, she created the Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook for faculty interested in understanding and teaching in the field of social entrepreneurship.



Celine Chew
Cardiff University

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Dr Celine Chew teaches strategy and nonprofit marketing to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supervises MBA, MSc and PhD projects/dissertations at  Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.  Her research interest is in the application of strategy and marketing, strategic positioning, innovation and performance in public service and nonprofit organizations and in social enterprises. She sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Public Management Review, is a member of the Wales Third Sector Reference Group, a founding member of the International Research Society for Public Management  and a Research Associate of the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society  in Cardiff University. Before academia, Dr Chew held senior management and marketing positions in the private and non-profit sectors for 17 years.

Timothy Curtis
University of Northampton

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Reverend Timothy Curtis is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton, and former Senior Research Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School, Oxford, with whom he led a programme of research into public sector involvement in social entrepreneurship. He now leads the Northampton BA (Hons) and Masters programmes in social enterprise as well as teaching business ethics and community development.  He has just been appointed as an Unltd/HEFCE Ambassador in Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education. He is a non-stipendiary Orthodox Christian priest and leads a multinational community in Northampton.

Edward F. Fischer
Vanderbilt University

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Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on issues of economics, identities, and moral values; he has conducted long-term field work with the Maya of Guatemala and in Germany; and he has consulted for companies and government agencies on culture and strategic change.



Matthew Grimes
Vanderbilt University

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Entering his fourth year of doctoral studies at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, Matt’s research interests are focused on the origins and impacts of social entrepreneurship.  Specifically his work explores the collective action and organizational identities associated with the emergence of social entrepreneurship and asks whether or not such activities and identities hold consequences for organizing as well as for organizational efficacy.  Matt also teaches several courses at Vanderbilt University that explore the intersection of business and society.

Rebecca Harding
Delta Economics and the World Entrepreneur Society

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Dr Rebecca Harding, founder and managing director of Delta Economics and the World Entrepreneur Society, is an academic researcher, a business economist and an entrepreneur.  She has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, a Senior Research Fellow at London Business School, Global and UK Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), an Associate Director of Research at Deloitte and the Work Foundation’s Chief Economist.  She was Specialist Adviser to the Treasury Select Committee and Chief Economic Adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship. Her research has influenced policy and thinking about enterprise and social enterprise, most recently through her input into the Women’s Enterprise Task Force and the Women’s Enterprise Centre of Expertise in the West Midlands and her new report, ‘Hidden Social Enterprise’.    In 2008 she was awarded the Prowess Women’s Researcher of the Year award.

Ben Huybrechts
University of Oxford

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Ben has recently got his PhD in Management at HEC Management School, University of Liège (Belgium). Based at the Centre for Social Economy (HEC Management School) as a research and teaching assistant , he currently is on a post-doctoral research stay at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research examines social enterprises from an institutional perspective, looking at issues such as organizational diversity, governance, and partnerships with mainstream businesses, in different countries and fields (Fair Trade, work integration, etc.). In the context of a new Master program in the management of social enterprises, to be launched in September 2010 at HEC Management School, he will be teaching classes on governance and organizational diversity in social enterprises. Ben is a member of several academic networks (EMES, ISTR, Fairness) and he is a founding member of the recently created Belgian Fair Trade Federation.

Paul C. Light
New York University

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Paul C. Light is Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service and is the founding director of the school’s new NYU/Abu Dhabi Center for Global Public Service and Social Impact. Before joining NYU, he was vice president and director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution, Douglas Dillon Senior Feller, and founding director of its Center for Public Service.  He has held teaching posts at the University of Virginia, University of Minnesota, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.  He was also senior adviser to the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and director of the public policy grant program at the Pew Charitable Trusts.  He is the author of 23 books, most recently A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It (Harvard University Press, 2008) and The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). 

Fergus Lyon
Middlesex University

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Professor Fergus Lyon is Professor of Enterprise and Organisations in the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University, UK. His research interests include social enterprise, trust and co-operation between enterprises, enterprise behaviour in public services and business support. He is leading a 5 year programme of research on Social Enterprise as part of the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by ESRC and Office of the Civil Society. Previously he has carried out research in Ghana, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Nepal.  He is also a founder and director of a social enterprise preschool.




Piera Morlacchi
Sussex University

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Dr. Piera Morlacchi carries out research on the relationship between people, organizations and technologies. Her research on how people attempt to solve social problems by creating and managing new ventures and technologies has enabled her to contribute to an improved theoretical understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurship, technology, social change and policy. She has published in journals like Research Policy and Innovations: Technology Governance and Globalization. Since joining Sussex and SPRU in May 2003 as Lecturer, she has been teaching in the areas of entrepreneurship, organization and research methodology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In parallel to her post as lecturer at Sussex, she has held visiting positions at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Santa Fe Institute.

Scott L. Newbert
Villanova University

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Scott L. Newbert is an associate professor at Villanova University.  He received his Ph.D. in strategic management and entrepreneurship from Rutgers University.  His research interests include the processes by which existing and nascent firms create value through the entrepreneurial use of available resources, the determinants of firm creation, and the socioeconomic impacts of entrepreneurial activity.  His research has appeared in leading management journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Journal of Business Ethics.  In addition to his academic endeavors, he also provides consulting services on entrepreneurship issues to non-profit and for-profit organizations, with clients including the United States and Dutch governments and Sandia National Laboratories. Prior to obtaining his Ph.D., he worked in sales for a Fortune 500 company, worked as a collegiate athletics coach, and co-founded a privately owned marketing firm serving clients including Colgate-Palmolive and McNeil Nutritionals.

Jacob Park
Green Mountain College and Oxford University

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Jacob Park is Associate Professor of Business Strategy and Sustainability at Green Mountain College in Vermont specializing in sustainability, innovation, and the social & environmental dimensions of entrepreneurship with a special expertise/interest in Japan, China, and the Asia-Pacific region. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and has served as a Visiting Scholar at INSEAD Business School Middle East Campus (2010);  POSCO Visiting Fellow, East-West Center (2008); Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Central European University (2007); International Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sydney’s Faculty of Business and Economics (2007); among others.






Darryl Reed
York University

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Darryl Reed holds degrees in Ethics (PhD, USC 1997) and Political Economy and Public Policy (PhD, USC 1995) and teaches in the multidisciplinary Business & Society program at York University (Toronto).   His broad area of research is Business and Development.  Within this field he examines the practices of both conventional, for-profit firms and alternative (social economy) businesses, including how such firms cooperate and compete.  Professor Reed has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (2009) and has been the Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (1997-1998).  He is the in-coming president of the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC).

 

David Robinson
Duke University

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David Robinson is a Professor of Finance and the William and Sue Gross Distinguished Research Scholar at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Research Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Fuqua School.  Professor Robinson teaches a popular elective at Fuqua, Entrepreneurial Finance.  His past research has focused primarily in two areas: one concerns the role that capital markets and organizational design considerations play in promoting startup activity, the other concerns the role that personality traits play in shaping entrepreneurial decisions and outcomes.





Eleanor Shaw
Strathclyde Business School

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Dr Eleanor Shaw is a Reader in Marketing at Strathclyde Business School and a Principle Investigator working within the UK-wide, ESRC-funded Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP). Eleanor’s research interests lie in the area of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial marketing. She is especially interested in social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial philanthropy. She has published in leading journals including Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice and the British Journal of Management. Eleanor has presented her work at numerous peer reviewed conferences including the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Eleanor has more than 15 years of teaching experience and has taught at various universities through the UK, US, South America and Europe.

Thierry Sibieude
ESSEC

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Thierry Sibieude started teaching in 1992 and joined ESSEC in 1996. He teaches Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in the MBA and executive education. Thierry is also the Director of the Institute for Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, co-Director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Management, and Professor of the Social Entrepreneurship Centre.  In addition to his teaching work, Thierry is regional councillor for the Val d’Oise département and member of the National Council for Sustainable Development. He is also involved in the associative field, being Founder and Chairman of “La Clé pour l’Autisme”, and member of the board of FEGAPEI (Union of associations in charge of mental disabled people) and Croix Rouge Française.





Roger Spear
Open University

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Roger Spear is Chair of the Co-operatives Research Unit, Member of the Ciriec Scientific Committee, founder member and vice-president of EMES research network on social enterprise. He teaches organisational systems and research methods at the Open University.  His most recent research projects are: Governance and Social Enterprise; an EC Peer Review of the social economy in Belgium; and an OECD project on the social economy in Korea. He is visiting professor at Roskilde University, Copenhagen, Denmark, on a Masters in Social Entrepreneurship.







Dr. Simon Teasdale
Birmingham University

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Simon has worked in and around social enterprise for 15 years, beginning at the Big Issue in the North in the early 1990s.  He completed his PhD thesis: The potential for social enterprise to combat exclusion, in 2005.  Since then he has lectured on the University of East London’s BA Social Enterprise.  He moved to Birmingham University in 2009 to take up a position as social enterprise research fellow within the Third Sector Research Centre. He has recently published papers on social enterprise and disadvantage; models of social enterprise in the homelessness field; the role of impression management in resource acquisition; and social entrepreneurship and gender.






Alfred Vernis
ESADE Business School

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Professor Alfred Vernis  is a member of the Institute of Social Innovation at  ESADE Business Scool. He co-directs the courses The Managerial Function in Non-Governmental Organizations, and Leadership and Social Innovation, with the collaboration of Fundació "la Caixa". He currently manages the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) research at ESADE, led by the Harvard Business School and supported by Fundación Avina. He has published various articles and books on management in the third sector. He is a co-author of "La gestión de las organizaciones no lucrativas" (Deusto, 1998), "Los retos en la gestión de las organizaciones no lucrativas" (Granica, 2004), "Nonprofit Organizations: Challenges and Collaboration" (Palgrave, 2006) and "Effective Management of Social Enterprises" (Harvard University, 2006).



Jennifer A. Wade-Berg
Kennesaw State University

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Dr. Jennifer A. Wade-Berg joined Kennesaw State University as the Chief Diversity Officer in August 2008.  She is also an Assistant Professor in the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services in the Department of Social Work and Human Services where she teaches nonprofit management.  Her research interests include alternative funding sources for nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurship, social enterprise (nonprofit business planning), diversity, and sports philanthropy.  Dr. Wade-Berg holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration (concentrations in public administration, public policy and nonprofit management) and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs; and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT). 







Fiona Wilson
Simmons School of Management

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Fiona teaches MBA and Executive Education courses in Strategy, with a special focus on the intersection of strategy and society, as well as running experiential, service learning courses conducting projects for social ventures. Her dissertation, completed in 2009 at the Boston University School of Management explored the phenomenon of “Socially Conscious Capitalism” and her current research continues to focus on for-profit social entrepreneurship. Fiona spent almost 20 years as a practitioner including serving senior roles for CMGI Inc. and Ogilvy & Mather Advertising. She has also undertaken extensive work with nonprofits organizations, including being the co-founder and Director of a social venture, the Team With a Vision, an initiative of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind.

Emmanuel Yujuico
LSE IDEAS

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Originally from the Philippines, Emmanuel Yujuico is currently a research fellow in Southeast Asia International Affairs at LSE IDEAS. With regard to social entrepreneurship, he is interested in the application of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach to challenges of poverty alleviation via enterprise. His current work focuses on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D), especially remittance technologies for migrant workers and affordable computing for basic education. His publications have appeared in the Socio-Economic Review, Global Networks, and Business Horizons.