Babson College Provost Patricia G. Greene has been appointed to the National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board (SBDC) effective for a three-year term.
SBDC is an Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), an independent agency of the federal government established to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interest of small business concerns; to preserve free competitive enterprise; and to maintain and strengthen the overall U.S. economy.
The SBA relies on the SBDC Board to serve as an independent source of advice and recommendations on matters of importance to the development of small businesses. Greene will also provide advice concerning the administration and implementation of Small Business Development Center programs.
“This is great match,” says Greene, “My role at Babson, the top-ranked school worldwide for entrepreneurship education, is in perfect sync with the goals of SBDC…to offer one-stop assistance to entrepreneurs and small businesses.”
At Babson, Greene has served as Dean of the Undergraduate School and held the President’s Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Babson she held the Ewing Marion Kauffman/Missouri Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (1998-2003) and the New Jersey Chair of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers University (1996-1998). She was a founding member of the Rutgers Center for Entrepreneurial Management and the coordinator of the Rutgers Entrepreneurship Curriculum.
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. The Diana Projects books include International Women’s Entrepreneurship: Research on the Growth of Women Owned Businesses, Women and Entrepreneurship: Contemporary Classics, Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses (recently republished in Chinese). Her most recent book, with Mark Rice, is the edited volume, Entrepreneurship Education. Her work has been published in journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Research, Small Business Economics, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Small Business Management and The National Journal of Sociology.
Greene serves as Vice Chair for Research on the Board of Directors of the Center for Women’s Business Research, and she is co-chair of the Steering Committee for the Entrepreneurship Affinity Group of the AACSB. She is also on the National Science Foundation SBIR/STTR Advisory Committee and has served on other advisory boards including those of the State of Missouri Small Business Development Centers, Kansas Women’s Business Center, Growth Opportunity Connection, the Kansas City ATHENAPowerLink™ and the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program.
Greene earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a BS from the Pennsylvania State University.
