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 Dr. J. Janelle (Jan) Shubert
Director, Center for Women's Leadership
Adjunct Professor of Management Jan has been at Babson since April of 2004. In addition to serving as the Associate Director for CWL she has been co-chair of Babson’s Executive Education (BEE) program for women: “From Managing to Leading.” Shubert has over thirty years of experience in higher education. Prior to coming to Babson she spent twelve years at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In addition to designing and teaching a variety of degree program courses, she was also the Faculty Chair for multiple Executive Education programs, including two programs specifically designed for Northern Ireland, as well as the school’s two oldest professional development programs for women---the International Women’s Forum Leadership Fellows Program and the National Hispania Leadership Institute Fellows program. Jan has also taught at Harvard Business School and at the University of Michigan and was a visiting faculty member at London Business School. An active consultant for over thirty years to a wide array of organizations, she is a frequent presenter at conferences and professional meetings. Jan earned her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and holds a master’s degree from Michigan State University and a B.A. from Southwest Missouri State University. She and her husband Charles live in the Boston area and have one grown son.
Contact Jan Shubert at 781-239-5585 or jshubert@babson.edu
Executives-in-Residence
Teri Cavanagh
Teri is an international gender and business strategist who enables corporations and organizations to unleash the productive power of women's businesses. A visionary who built of the most innovative small business banking programs for women in the U.S., Terri in the last five years has created models in developing and developed countries for propelling women's business growth through access to capital and resources. In her role as President of Teri Cavanaugh Associates, she advises leaders across the public and private sectors on how to understand, assess, market to and profit from women's businesses anywhere in the world. Prior to launching her company in 2004, Teri was Senior Vice President and Director of the award-winning Women Entrepreneurs' Connection at Fleet Bank, where she developed and implemented a long-term strategy for incorporating product development, services and programs to meet the specific credit and financial services needs of women and business. Susan Foley
Susan is the Founder of Corporate Entrepreneurs, LLC. As an experienced corporate entrepreneur, Susan understands the challenges and opportunities of creating an entrepreneurial mindset and infrastructure inside an established organization. Susan has spent the last twenty years helping Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurial startups develop new businesses that have generated millions. She works with business executives that are under pressure to deliver better results from their strategic investments. She works with organizations to ensure that the right entrepreneurial skills, processes and infrastructure are in place to succeed. Susan has held senior positions at Standard & Poor's, 3M, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Inc., DMR Group and Arthur D. Little, Inc. Shainoor Khoja Shainoor has successfully operated projects and businesses in four different continents working within diverse cultures, in challenging environments and in multiple languages. For the last four years she has focused on the mobile technology sector setting up a new division within the mobile technology industry in corporate social responsibility from start up to project delivery and operation. She continues to develop the programs by researching and creating innovative uses of technology for business and expansion and societal benefit in areas such as Telemedicine, transfer of educational content through mobile phones, training programs to build in country human capacity. Most recently she is also advising start-up companies in insurance, financial services and healthcare within Central Asia and the GCC. Debra Facktor-Lepore Debra is a "serial entrepreneur" with over 20 years experience in the aerospace industry, nearly all of which involved start-up projects or companies. Her company, DFL Space LLC, engineers innovative business strategies,using Debra's entrepreneurial and technical skills to balance big picure visions with tactical implementation. She is alos President of AirLaunch LLC, a company (currently in hiatus) developing a small rocket launched out of a C-17 cargo airplane to deploy small satelites into space. Debra is President of the Washington State Women's Forum and a former Leadership Foundation Fellow
Jane Magpiong
Jane formerly served as president of The Private Bank of Bank of America, accountable for more than $2 billion in revenue and $170 billion in assets under management. She also held the role of northeast region president of the Private Bank. Prior to her Bank of America roles, she spent 14 years at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco. A member of the Mass Mentoring Partnership Governing Board, she also has served as co-chair for the United Way of Massachusetts Bay campaign and as vice chair for Today’s Girls Tomorrow’s Leaders.
Suzy Welch
Welch is a noted author, commentator, syndicated columnist, and business journalist. Most recently, she is the co-author, with her husband Jack Welch, of WINNING, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. She is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and the author of numerous articles on leadership, change, creativity and organizational behavior as well as the contributor to several books on management. Affiliated Faculty Dr. I Elaine Allen Dr. Elaine Allen is the Research Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor of Statistics and Entrepreneurship. She is also the Research Director for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project and heads the US team. She is also Co-Director of the Babson Survey Research Group (BSRG). Dr. Candida Brush
Dr. Candida Brush holds the President’s Chair in Entrepreneurship and is the Entrepreneurship Division Chair for Entrepreneurship. She is well known for her pioneering research in women’s entrepreneurship. With four other researchers she founded the Diana Project, a research consortium investigating women’s access to growth capital. Dr. Lisa DiCarlo
Dr. DiCarlo comes to the Entrepreneurship Division with expertise in qualitative research methods and analysis, ethnographic research and writing, and discourse analysis. Her research areas include transnational migration, consumption and sustainability, entrepreneurship and creative economy, and the intersection of ethnographic research and social entrepreneurship. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Research Fellowships and the author of Migrating to America: Transnational Social Networks and Regional Identity among Turkish Migrants(IB Tauris). Her current projects include social impact assessment of environmental initiatives in Turkey, and examining state support of, and public reactions to Ebru: Reflections of Cultural Diversity in Turkey. Dr. Anne Donnellon
Dr. Donnellon is an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College. She teaches leadership, negotiation, teamwork, and organizational design in the MBA and executive education programs at Babson. The author of Team Talk: The Power of Language in Team Dynamics, published by Harvard Business School Press, she also developed with them an interactive corporate training product entitled Teams That Work. Professor Donnellon has also published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and teaching cases. Dr. Elaine Eisenman Dr. Elaine Eisenman is the dean of Babson Executive Education. Before coming to Babson, Eisenman held senior executive positions at American Express, Enhance Financial Services Co., The Children’s Place, PDI International, and Management & Capital Partners. Recently, Dean Eisenman co-authored a book entitled, I Didn’t See It Coming: How to Get to the Top Without Being Blind-sided, which was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Dr. Marjorie Feld Dr. Marjorie Feld is an Assistant Professor of History at Babson College. Feld has taught History and American Studies courses at Brandeis University and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She specializes in teaching U.S. Women's and Labor History alongside a survey course on Modern America and the foundational course on Migration and Meaning. Her dissertation, Lillian D. Wald and "Mutuality" in Twentieth-Century America, focuses on the intersections of gender, class, and ethno-religious identities, and urban and social welfare history. Dr. Mary Godwyn
Dr. Godwyn currently teaches the History and Society Foundation course, Gender Studies, Women's Studies and introductory and advanced courses in Sociology. She has lectured at Harvard University and taught at Brandeis University and Lasell College, where she was also the Director of the Donahue Institute for Public Values. Dr. Godwyn is an expert on social theory as it applies to issues of inequality. Her most recent publication is entitled "The Impact and Influence of Women's Business Centers in the United States," with Nan Langowitz and Norean Sharpe (2005). Dr. Danna Greenberg Danna Greenberg is an Assistant Professor of Management at Babson College where she teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses in Organizational Behavior. Prior to joining the faculty at Babson, she taught at Boston College and Tilburg University in The Netherlands. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Boston College, Carroll School of Management. Dr. Patti Greene
Dr. Patricia Greene is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Dr. Greene’s research focuses on the identification, acquisition, and combination of entrepreneurial resources, particularly by women and minority entrepreneurs. She is a founding member of the Diana Project, a research group focusing on women and the venture capital industry.
Dr. Nan Langowitz
Dr. Nan Langowitz is Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Babson College and was the Founding Director of Babson’s Center for Women's Leadership. Her research and teaching is focused on the entrepreneurial leadership of women as well as the challenges and opportunities for organizations seeking to leverage the talent and market power of women. Professor Langowitz currently teaches Managerial Assessment and Development and Leadership courses in Babson’s MBA program and has been the co-director for “Moving from Managing to Leading,” Babson’s Executive Education program for women. Dr. Phylllis F. Schlesinger Before returning to the Boston area in 2008, Phyllis was Senior Lecturer in Management and Human Resources at Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. As Director, of the Fisher Leadership and Team Development Initiative, she collaborated with faculty and business executives to bring more leadership development activities into the MBA curriculum. Between 1986 and 2001, she was a member of the Babson faculty, and she taught courses in Organizational Behavior and Organizational Design and Change. She was actively involved in the Graduate Decision Making Body, the Graduate Excel Team, and in the design and delivery of the integrated MBA curriculum. Dr. Virginia Soybel Ginny Soybel teaches financial accounting and financial statement analysis in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. She earned her M.B.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University and taught at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College before coming to Babson in 1995. Professor Soybel’s research focuses on the effects of alternate reporting methods on corporate financial statements and ratios, the time series behavior of financial ratios, and the political process of accounting standard-setting. Her publications include articles in Strategic Management Journal and in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Dr. Donna Stoddard
Dr. Donna Stoddard is Associate Professor of Information Technology Management (ITM) and Chair of the ITM Division at Babson College. Dr. Stoddard teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive education courses related to management information systems and business strategy. Before joining the Babson faculty, Dr. Stoddard was on the faculty at Harvard Business School where she taught in the MBA and executive education programs. She is a graduate of Creighton University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Harvard Business School where she received her BS, MBA and DBA, respectively. Elizabeth Thornton Elizabeth Thornton was recently named Babson's first Chief Diversity Officer. Thornton is the President and CEO of Entrepreneurship Advantage Inc, and a part time entrepreneurship faculty member of The Blank Center of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and The Boston University School of Management. She has assisted over 87 businesses in Massachusetts and hundreds nationwide, and has also consulted with such diverse groups as the Pioneer Institute, the Center for Women and Enterprise, Inner City Entrepreneurs, the State of Massachusetts and the City of Boston, to name a few. Thornton says “accessing the right tools to help your business grow is the key to success.” |
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