Dr. Candida Brush, along with Dr. Jana Matthews, and Emily Stone, has been elected as members of the Board of Directors of the Center for Women’s Business Research. The three-year terms began January 1, 2008.
Dr. Candida Brush is a full professor and the President’s Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College. She also serves as the director of Babson’s PhD program in entrepreneurship and division chair for entrepreneurship.
She is well known for her pioneering research in women’s entrepreneurship. She conducted the first and largest study of women entrepreneurs in the early 1980’s. With four other researchers she founded the Diana Project, a research consortium investigating women’s access to growth capital. Their book, Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses, was published in 2004.
Her research is also published in management and entrepreneurship journals and is covered is popular media such as the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and Inc. magazine.
Dr. Jana Matthews, founder and CEO of The Jana Matthews Group, is an international expert on entrepreneurial leadership and business growth. She is co-author of Lessonsfrom the Edge, Leading at the Speed of Growth, Building the Awesome Organization and four other books.
Her company helps entrepreneurs and CEOs improve their company’s leadership and effectiveness so that they can sustain long-term growth and profitability.
As a member of the original senior team of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Kauffman Foundation, she designed programs to teach entrepreneurs to manage growth. Also while at the Kauffman Foundation, she developed the Kauffman Fellows Program. She has written for Entreworld.com, Dow-Jones’ Startupjournal.com and is quoted regularly in Inc. magazine, Investor Business Daily, and other publications. She is a former member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Women’s Business Research.
Emily Stone is the founder and president of Stone Group which provides strategic business and licensing services to fashion and consumer products companies. Her clients include Bausch & Lomb, Liz Claiborne, Kimberly-Clark, Revlon, Calvin Klein, and Karl Lagerfeld/Tommy Hilfiger among others.
She is a founding member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Women’s Business Research. She is also an advisor to Aid to Artisans (From Maker to Market), and a member of The International Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association.
“We are honored to welcome these exceptional women to our Board of Directors,” said Margaret A. Smith, chair, Center for Women’s Business Research. “The Center will benefit enormously from their entrepreneurial and research experience as we continue to do research and create initiatives that support the growth and prosperity of all women business owners.
The three new Board members join a group of highly-talented individuals serving on the Center’s Board of Directors. A complete list of these members follows this release.
For more information on the Center, visit www.womensbusinessresearch.org, send an email to info@womensbusinessresearch.org or call 202.638.3060.
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| Center for Women’s Business Research Board Members |
| Ms. Margaret Smith
Chair
President
Domus
Los Gatos, CA
| Dr. Patricia G. Greene
Vice Chair, Research
Provost
Babson College
Babson Park, MA |
| Ms. Beverly Holmes
Chair Elect
Vice Chair, Strategy
Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth & New
Bus Dev Officer
MassMutual Financial Group
Springfield, MA | Ms. Gail McDonald
Vice Chair, Board Development
President
St. Charles Consulting Group, LLC
Dallas, TX |
| Ms. Marjorie Alfus
Immediate Past Chair
President
Alfus Family, L.P.
New York, NY | Ms. Deann E. Murphy
Vice Chair, Communications
President
Craft Clicks, Inc.
New Rochelle, NY |
| Ms. Gayle Watson
Treasurer
President
Performance Solutions Inc.
Dallas, TX | Ms. Flori Roberts
Vice Chair, Advisory Council
Co-Founder
Smart Cover Cosmetics
Longboat, FL
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| Ms. Roslyn Daum
Vice Chair, Corporate Development
Partner
Choate, Hall & Stewart, LLP
Boston, MA | Ms. Sheila Brooks
President & CEO
SRB Productions Inc.
Washington, D.C. |
| Dr. Candida Brush
Divison Chair in Entrepreneurship, Paul T.
Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship
Babson College
Babson Park, MA | Ms. Diahann Lassus
President
Lassus Wherley
New Providence, NJ |
| Ms. Kathleen K. Diamond
President
LLE, Inc.
Washington, DC | Dr. Jana Matthews
CEO
The Jana Matthews Group
Boulder, CO |
| Dr. Sharon Emek
Managing Director
CBS Coverage Group, Inc.
New York, NY | Ms. Nina McLemore
President
Nina McLemore, LLC
New York, NY |
| Ms. Janice Hamilton
President and CEO
JMH Education
New York, NY | Ms. Emily Stone
President
Stone Group
New York, NY |
| Dr. Myra M. Hart
Class of 1961 Professor of Management
Practice (Ret.)
Harvard Business School
Boston, MA | Ms. Helen Hodges
President
Separation Systems Consultants, Inc. (SSCI)
Environmental
Houston, TX |
| Emeritus: |
| Ms. Laura Henderson
President
Prospect Associates
Bethesda, MD | Ms. Susan Peterson
President and CEO
The Communication Center
Washington, DC |
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About the Center for Women’s Business Research
The Center for Women’s Business Research provides data-driven knowledge that advances the economic, social, and political impact of women business owners and their enterprises. We do this by setting the national agenda; creating insight on the status and achievements of women business owners; altering perceptions about the economic viability and progress of women-owned enterprises, and driving awareness of the economic and social impact of this vital business sector. For more information, visit www.womensbusinessresearch.org.
