Donna Kelley is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, and holds the David H. Park ‘91 Term Chair in Entrepreneurship. Donna teaches courses on entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in Asia. She has published research on management practices for innovation and corporate entrepreneurship in large established organizations and the patent, alliance, and product innovation activities of technology-based startups. Her research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Human Resource Management, and others. Her current research streams include: (1) the characteristics of breakthrough patents, (2) innovation and entrepreneurship in new ventures and established organizations in Korea, and (3) the corporate entrepreneurship process in large, established organizations, with a special interest in how organizations create systems for managing entrepreneurial projects.

Donna received her Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and she has an MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a BA in Chemistry from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her early career involved work as a chemical technician for James River Graphics and as a quality control chemist for Stanley Home Products. Her entrepreneurship experience involves founding a health fitness business and joining the management team of a computer hardware startup, responsible for finance and operations. She recently was a founding team member, and a founding board member, of a Chinese immersion public charter school.