Seeking Applications for the Dean's Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship
The Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton University seeks applications for the Dean's Visiting Professorship in Entrepreneurship for Academic Years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. Inaugurated in the 2007-08 academic year, this visiting professorship is a key element of Princeton's broadening scope of entrepreneurship education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The appointment provides half-year support and can be implemented either as one-semester with full support, or a full year with half-support. In the latter case, the expectation is that the other half support will be provided by the visitor’s home institution.
The Visiting Professor is expected to bring a unique and creative educational experience to the students (undergraduate and/or graduate) through classroom teaching and other projects. Educational innovation is of particular interest in this appointment.
Candidates will be evaluated according to their scholarship and teaching ability, and their track record of innovations and innovative teaching methods as applied to entrepreneurship.
The application deadline is November 10. The applicant should indicate in his/her application the preferred academic year for their visit. Applications should include the candidate’s c.v. and a statement of how the candidate proposes to spend the visiting semester or year. Three reference letters that comment on the nominee’s qualifications and experiences relevant to the proposed activities will be required for top candidates.
Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations. You may apply for this position online at http://jobs.princeton.edu (search for requisition number 0900434). For general application information and how to self-identify, see http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/ApplicantsInfo.htm.
Broadening Princeton's scope in entrepreneurship education
Inaugurated in 2007–08, and made possible by the generous support of several Princeton alumni, the Dean’s Visiting Professorship in Entrepreneur- ship is a key element of Princeton’s broadening scope of entrepreneurship education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The goal of this position is to bring a unique and creative educational experience to both undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines. Candidates are selected according to their scholarship and teaching ability, and their track record of innovations and innovative teaching methods as applied to entrepreneurship.
Gordon Bloom is founder of the Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab) at Stanford & Harvard Universities and is the Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship for 2009-2010. He teaches about the design, creation and development of innovative social change organizations. The SE Lab is a Silicon Valley and technology–influenced social venture incubator, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to global problem solving. It was launched at Stanford in 2001-2002, while Gordon taught on Stanford’s Public Policy Program faculty, and served as a faculty affiliate at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Program Officer at Stanford’s Institute for International Studies. At Harvard, Gordon has taught on the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) faculty in the Leadership and Management Group, and as a principal of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and as a faculty advisor and affiliate of the Center for Public Leadership, where in 2005 he was one of the founding faculty of the $10M Harvard Reynolds Foundation Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. Many of the talented students & fellows in his Harvard and Stanford SE Labs have won the top awards of prestigious idea and business plan competitions, including those at Stanford, Harvard, and MIT.Gordon is an author of the edited volume Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change (A. Nicholls, ed., Oxford University Press, 2006/2008) and is a founding member of the Oxford/Ashoka led University Network for Social Entrepreneurship. Gordon’s interest in entrepreneurship is informed by work in both the private and nonprofit sectors in the U.S. (New York, Cambridge, Palo Alto), Europe (London, Paris) and Asia (Hong Kong), as CEO of a medical technology company and in international strategy consulting. He hold’s degrees from Harvard (AB) magna cum laude in History & Science, Stanford (MBA) with an award in Public Management and Columbia (MFA) where he held a Shubert Fellowship.div>
- John Danner served as the Dean's Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship during the Fall 2008 semester from the University of California Berkeley. He is Senior Fellow of The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where he teaches the core MBA course on entrepreneurship, as well as other graduate courses on business model innovation and strategies for startups. He also launched UC's campus-wide undergraduate course on entrepreneurship and global poverty. He began his entrepreneurial career as an undergraduate at Harvard, and has since been involved in startups of various types as entrepreneur, advisor and investor. In addition, he has worked as a management consultant, lawyer or senior executive in the private, nonprofit and public sectors in fields from education and healthcare to telecommunications and energy. A frequent speaker at conferences and seminars around the world, he is also senior moderator with The Aspen Institute's executive and global leadership programs. He received his J.D., M.P.H. and M.A.Ed. degrees from UC Berkeley. During his visit to Princeton, he will be teaching a course titled "Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Ventures to Address Global Challenges"
- In its inaugural year, the professorship was held by Julian Lange ’65, the Governor Craig R. Benson Professor of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy at Babson College. During his visit, Professor Lange developed a workshop series titled "Harnessing the Power of Entrepreneurship" that described the application of entrepreneurship principles to areas other than starting companies. He also taught a course titled "Managing High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms." Lange's research interests include the entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet and financing high-growth entrepreneurial ventures. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. Lange is the founder and president of Chatham Associates, a management consulting firm that assists businesses in building competitive advantage. He was president and CEO of Software Arts, Inc., the creators of the first electronic spreadsheet, and was a founding trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council. He has taught in numerous executive education programs and has served as assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. He is the author of “Entrepreneurs and the Internet” in The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, and co-author of the prize-winning paper "Pricing High Growth Firms: Arbitrage Opportunities in the Inc. 100" and the book The Construction Industry: Balance Wheel of the Economy.