Five Cornell faculty members were recently appointed to J. Thomas Clark Professorships of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise, effective July 1 through June 30, 2006, as announced by Provost Biddy Martin following the May meeting of the Cornell Board of Trustees.
Four other faculty members were granted extensions of their Clark professorship awards. The professorships, which are limited term appointments, foster participation in Cornell's universitywide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program (EPE) by providing funding for faculty members from throughout the university to develop new courses or engage in research in the areas of new business creation, innovation and development.
J. Thomas Clark '63, MBA '64, and Nancy Williams Clark '62, M.Ed. '64, created the Clark Endowment in 1993. Since that time, 14 professors from seven Cornell schools and colleges have held Clark professorships.
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Sheila Danko, associate professor in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, College of Human Ecology.
Danko will develop scholarly case studies and a strategic story database, "Values-Led Entrepreneurship by Design: Strategic Stories of Growing a Socially Responsible Business." The goal is to create a compendium of teaching cases and strategic stories that reveal the inherent creative tensions and special challenges unique to values-led entrepreneurship. Danko's work also will examine the role of design as a tool for leadership and social change. The project will create new linkages and opportunities in entrepreneurship for students at Cornell; reach students not typically reached in undergrad business programs and lead to more research prominence for EPE.
Danko has a multidisciplinary design background with training in graphic design from the Center for Creative Studies, a B.S. in architecture from the University of Michigan and an M.I.D. in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has received significant industry and fellowship grants and has won numerous teaching awards. Danko is a member of the Foundation for Interior Design Education and Research Council and a former associate editor for The Journal of Interior Design. She is the author of many scholarly publications and has delivered several international keynotes and presentations on the role of design as a tool for leadership all over the world.
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Michael Lounsbury, assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Lounsbury will develop new undergraduate and graduate courses on social entrepreneurship and commence a new research program on social entrepreneurship. Currently, Cornell has no such course offerings. This spring, Lounsbury launched a seven-week course on Social Entrepreneurship at the Johnson Graduate School of Management that was highly popular. The Johnson School has asked him to teach it again, and he hopes to transform it into a full-semester MBA/graduate course offering. His undergraduate social entrepreneurship course offering will be cross-listed in the ILR School and the sociology department and will focus on broader sociological approaches to the contemporary dynamics of the nonprofit sector and social entrepreneurship.
Lounsbury received a B.A. in economics from Middlebury College, an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in sociology and organization behavior from Northwestern. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 1998, he was an instructor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is an active member of the American Sociological Association, the Academy of Management, the European Group on Organizations, INFORMS and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. He is the series editor for Research in the Sociology of Organizations, published by Elsevier, serves on a number of top scholarly journal editorial boards and has published in a variety of top sociology and management journals.
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Dennis Reynolds, assistant professor, School of Hotel Administration.
Reynolds will develop a new course, Small Business Entrepreneurship: The Restaurateur. The course will use a multidisciplinary approach to the restaurant business -- as a model for any business enterprise -- building on the allure of restaurant ownership and segueing into the reality of a restaurant as a profitable business venture. One of the unique features of the course will be the restaurant simulation, which emulates the excitement and many of the very real pitfalls involved with opening and operating a food-service operation. Ultimately, the two-credit, seven-week course is designed to give students from a broad range of colleges the opportunity to understand key business principles and recognize critical success factors in a restaurant-business context.
Reynolds holds a doctoral degree from Cornell in hotel administration and a master of professional studies degree with a concentration in internal controls also from Cornell, as well as a bachelor of science degree in hotel, restaurant and institutional management from Golden Gate University. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, Reynolds was the vice president and general manager of operations at Nutrition Management Services. His current research focuses on pathways leading to enhanced managerial efficiency and effectiveness with specific application to food-service organizations. His research has been published in several industry journals, and he also is the author of On-Site Foodservice Management: A Best Practices Approach (Wiley and Sons, 2003).
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Zachary Shulman, senior lecturer, Johnson Graduate School of Management and adjunct professor of law, Cornell Law School.
Shulman will develop and run the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic, which will provide affordable, quality legal services to start-up and emerging growth-oriented businesses. Cornell Law School students will work at the clinic, under supervision of volunteer attorneys from established firms experienced in the relevant fields of business law that start-up companies may encounter. The clinic will be marketed to the Cornell, Ithaca and other regional communities through student marketing interns selected from the Johnson School and other university colleges. The clinic will be affiliated with the New York State Science and Technology Law Center, a nonprofit organization that works to expand entrepreneurial resources throughout the state. Shulman received his B.S. degree from Cornell's ILR School in 1987 and graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1990. Prior to employment at Cornell, Shulman was general counsel and chief investor relations officer for Spike Broadband Systems and also an associate at Ropes & Gray and Harris Beach LLP.
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Judy Siguaw, associate professor, School of Hotel Administration.
Siguaw will develop a new course, Sales for Entrepreneurs, which will specifically target students in Applied Economics and Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Human Ecology; ILR School; and the Johnson School. However, any student with an interest in entrepreneurship, regardless of discipline, would benefit from the course. Open to 80 to 100 students and offered once a year, it will build on the foundation of current management, finance and marketing course offerings to provide the additional skills and knowledge needed to facilitate business success. Siguaw has a B.S. in marketing from Lamar University and MBA and doctor of business administration degrees from Louisiana Tech University. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 1997, Siguaw was an associate professor at Kennesaw State University.
Clark professorship committee members are: Susan Henry, chair, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Patsy Brannon, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of Human Ecology; David Butler, dean of the School of Hotel Administration; W. Kent Fuchs, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering; Robert Swieringa, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management; as well as J. Thomas Clark and Nancy Clark.
The committee also extended the Clark professorships of four other faculty members: Ralph Christy, professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will continue his research project on minority-owned businesses and emerging markets; Bruce Ganem, the Franz and Elizabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, will continue to develop his courses for undergraduates and graduates in science and business; Suzanne Loker, professor, Department of Textiles and Apparel, College of Human Ecology, will continue to develop her course Designers as Entrepreneurs and expand the outreach educational component for small business development and entrepreneurial designers; Michael Timmons, professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will develop a course textbook, Engineering Economics & Management for Entrepreneurs, to be used in the course Engineering Entrepreneurship, Management and Ethics, which was created with support from Timmons' first Clark professorship.
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