For the academic year of 2009/2010 we are proud to host:
Amanda Elam
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
aelam@babson.edu
781-239-4332
Amanda Elam is a PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research to date has involved the application of sociological theories of social structure and societal change to the multilevel analysis of crosscultural patterns of gender and entrepreneurship. She brings rigorous training in social theory, research methods, and advanced statistical modeling to the study of entrepreneurship. Amanda spent the past year as a postodoctoral fellow at a leading Australian school of management. Her interest in entrepreneurship and management, however, emerged many years ago out of her first post-college employment experience working in HR and marketing & sales for an international logistics software start-up in North Carolina. Amanda spent five years working at this corporate joint venture which grew from 38 to well over 200 people and from zero to multi-million dollars in revenue during her tenure. It left her hooked on entrepreneurship!
Runyu He
University Of Science and Technology Beijing, China
HE Runyu is an Associate Professor at School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing(USTB), China where he got his PhD. His research field is Strategic Management especially of Family Business in China, and Entrepreneurship. He is now working with Dr. Julian Lang researching the relationships between entrepreneurship and public policies. His research has appeared in journals such as Enterprise Management, Sino-Foreign Management, China Human Resource Development, and Research of International Economy. HE was an management consultant in a local consulting company in Beijing. As a short-term visiting scholar, he visited several European Universities in 2005-2006 supported by an EU Asia-Link program. HE Runyu is also a collector collecting all kinds of handmade Pigs all over the world.
Moriah Meyskens
Florida International University in Miami, USA
Moriah is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Management & International Business at Florida International University in Miami. Her areas of interest lie in Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business with a particular focus on social entrepreneurship, bottom of the pyramid and corporate social responsibility research. Moriah has presented her work at numerous conferences including at the Academy of Management, Babson, and USASBE. She has also co-organized professional development workshops at AOM on Content Analysis and Poverty Alleviation Research for New Scholars. Moriah has also published on social entrepreneurship and international assignments in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and the International Journal of Human Resource Management respectively. Moriah has taught both Management & Entrepreneurship courses and also has over eight years’ professional experience in finance and microfinance. Moriah holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics & Latin American Studies from UCLA and an MBA in Management & Entrepreneurship from NYU. She also speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Moriah will be a visiting scholar at Babson College while she works on her dissertation research on the Role of Partnerships in Early Stage Social Ventures.
Mattias Nordqvist
Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden
mnordqvist@babson.edu
781-239-4332
Mattias Nordqvist is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of CeFEO (Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership) at Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden where he received his PhD in 2005. He is Visiting Scholar and Co-Director of the Global STEP Project at Babson College, USA. He received his PhD from Jonkoping International Business School. His research has appeared in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family Business Review, Strategic Organization, Small Business Economics, International Studies in Management and Organization, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. He is a regular presenter at leading international research conferences and focuses his research on governance, entrepreneurship and strategy, particularly in family business contexts. He was recently selected as a FOBI Scholar for 2007-2008 by The Family Owned Business Institute located at the Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids in the USA. Nordqvist's research has been awarded with the FSF-Nutek Award for Outstanding Young Entrepreneurship researcher in Sweden (2006) and with FFI's prize for best unpublished research paper of the year (2005). Mattias teaches strategy, entrepreneurship and family enterprising at undergraduate, master and executive levels since 1999.
Mariarosa Scarlata
ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain
Mariarosa Scarlata is a PhD student in the Department of Finance at ESADE Business School in Barcelona (Spain). Her research interests lies in venture capital, social entrepreneurship, and the links between the two. Mariarosa’s PhD dissertation focuses on the application of the traditional venture capital model to a new way of financing for social entrepreneurs, namely philanthropic venture capital which will be discussed in a few months. Mariarosa presented her work at the last two Babson Conferences on Entrepreneurship Research and at the European Financial Management Association Annual Meeting. She is part of the Institute for Social Innovation and the Entrepreneurship Institute at ESADE where she also actively collaborates as research assistant. She works as personal faculty advisor for ESADE courses in corporate finance both at undergraduate and graduate levels. Mariarosa holds a degree in Management of financial markets and institutions from Bocconi University (Milan). She worked for a consultancy company in Italy as corporate analyst and for Reuters as client trainer.
Thomas Zellweger
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
tzellweger@babson.edu
781-239-4332
Thomas Zellweger got his PhD from the University of St. Gallen. His work has been published in several academic journals, amongst others Family Business Review and Financial Markets and Portfolio Management. His PhD thesis was awarded best dissertation in 2006 at the University of St. Gallen and got the Honorable Mention Award at the Family Firm Institute, Boston. Thomas is Global Co-Director of the STEP Project and is Research Fellow at Babson College. Thomas Zellweger has studed at the University of St. Gallen and at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. After completion of his studies he worked in investment banking for two years. He has co-founded and currently directs the Center for Family Business at the University of St. Gallen. Thomas Zellweger's primary research interest is performance, attachment, strategy and long-term success of family firms.
