Babson Names New Director of the Family Enterprising Global Project

Professor Pramodita Sharma will be joining Babson College as a Visiting Professor and Director of the STEP Global Project for Family Enterprising.
 
Sharma is a leading scholar in the field of family business and editor of Family Business Review. A professor at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University in Canada, she is also a visiting professor at Jönköping International Business School in Sweden.

Her research on the succession processes, governance, and dynamics underlying family firms has been honored with several international awards including the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) Best Dissertation award from the Entrepreneurship division of the Academy of Management and several best paper awards from the Family Firm Institute. Her most recent book (with Frank Hoy) on Entrepreneurial Family Firms was published in August 2009. Sharma is the co-founder (with Mark Green) of the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC) - an annual conference that attracts leading family business scholars from around the world.

Sharma also maintains close connections to the business community and a commitment to making research practically relevant. It is this unique “pracademic” blend which makes her a perfect fit to lead the STEP research project. With over thirty-five academic partners from around the world, STEP is the only global study focused on research on entrepreneurial family firms.