UNC Entrepreneurial Boot Camp Faculty
Michael Aguilera
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Michael Aguilera is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. He received his PhD in Sociology from
Stony Brook University. Most of his work has focused on how social networks influence the economic adaptation of Latino
immigrants. More recently his work has focused on the impact of ethnic enclaves on the incomes of self-employed Latino
immigrants.
Howard Aldrich
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Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he won the
Carlyle Sitterson Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2002. He is chair of the Department of Sociology and Adjunct Professor
of Management in the Kenan Flagler Business School. In 2000, he received two honors: the Swedish Foundation of Small
Business Research named him the Entrepreneurship Researcher of the Year and the Organization and Management Division of the
Academy of Management presented him with an award for a Distinguished Career of Scholarly Achievement. His latest
book, Organizations Evolving (Sage, 1999), won the Academy of Management George Terry Award as the best management book
published in 1998-99, and was co-winner of the Max Weber Award from the American Sociological Association's Section
on Organizations, Occupations, and Work. He is currently engaged in three research projects: (1) the process by which
entrepreneurial teams are founded, focusing on similarity and differences between team members; (2) the contribution that
voluntary association membership makes to entrepreneurial success; and (3) how to design courses and classroom activities
to promote active learning by students.
Tim Bates
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Professor Bates is Distinguished Professor of Labor and Urban Affairs
at Wayne State University in Detroit MI. He has written six books on minority
entrepreneurship and urban economic development topics. His most recent
book, Race, Self Employment, and Upward Mobility, was published
by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1997. Timothy Bates has published
over 60 articles in leading economics, entrepreneurship, finance, public
policy, and sociology journals. Applicable journals include the Review
of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business
, the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Business Venturing, Small
Business Economics, Social Forces, Economic Development Quarterly,
and others.
Professor Bates has served as American Statistical Association research
fellow in 1988, and in 1993–94 he was a fellowship holder at the Woodrow
Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. In 1999, he was the Floyd McKissick
visiting scholar at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He currently serves on the editorial boards
of four scholarly journals: 1) Journal of Business Venturing, 2) Small
Business Economics, 3) Economic Development Quarterly, and 4) Journal
of Developmental Entrepreneurship. Timothy Bates received his Ph.D. in
economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Professor Bates has an active consulting practice, which includes, among
his clients, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, the
U.S. Small Business Administration, the City of Chicago, the U.S. Attorney’s
Office of Southeast Michigan, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,
among others. He was recognized by INC Magazine in 1995 as one of the
top 16 researchers in entrepreneurship in the U.S. Timothy Bates has served
on the Advisory Council for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and he was
a member of the President’s Taskforce on Small Business.
Thomas Boston
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Dr. Thomas “Danny” Boston is a Professor of Economics at Georgia Tech where he has served
on the faculty since 1985. He is also a successful entrepreneur. Between 1994 and 2007 he was
the President of Boston Research Group, Inc and in 2007 launched a new enterprise; EuQuant
(pronounced U-Quant—website: www.euquant.com). The company seeks to be a leading
provider of quantitative research and information on domestic emerging markets and
underserved communities. It focuses particularly on racial and ethnic minority businesses,
households and communities that have significant growth potential but are underserved or
undervalued in the market place. Dr Boston received the Ph.D. Degree in Economics from
Cornell University and he has formerly served as President of the National Economic
Association, Editor of The Review of Black Political Economy and Senior Economist to the Joint
Economic Committee of Congress. He is also a former Captain in the U.S. Army and recipient of
the Purple Heart. A distinguished researcher and a national and international consultant, he has
advised the US Small Business Administration, US Department of Commerce and Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation on legislation affecting small disadvantaged businesses. He currently
serves as advisor to the Georgia Department of Transportation Disadvantaged Business
Enterprise Program. He is currently assisting the Nigerian National Assembly in establishing a
National Research and Budgeting Office and has worked with UNESCO Brazil in developing
policies aimed at enhancing racial equality in education and business. Dr Boston is the author
of six books and he holds major research grants from the MacArthur Foundation, US
Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Kauffman Foundation. In 2006 he was
awarded Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College Legacy Award, given annually to the faculty who
exhibits the most exemplary research and community service. He is also a past recipient of
Georgia Tech’s Faculty of the Year Award and the State of Georgia’s Economics Educator of the
Year award. He has two children and is married to Dr Catherine Ross, former Executive Director
of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and current Director of the Center for Quality
Growth at Georgia Tech.
William Bradford
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William Bradford is Endowed Professor of Business and Economic Development
and Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Washington
School of Business, Seattle Washington. From 1994 to 1999 he was Dean
of the Business School and holder of the Kirby Cramer Chair at the University
of Washington, and was awarded the Endowed Professorship in Business and
Economic Development upon his joining the faculty as Professor of Finance
and Business Economics.
Professor Bradford serves on the Board of Directors of the Frank Russell
Trust Company, the Urban Enterprise Center of Seattle’s Chamber
of Commerce, Junior Achievement of King County, the Commerce Bank, and
the Northwest Capital Network, among others. He is a member of the Breakfast
Group and Tabor 100. He chairs the Business Mentors Committee of Seattle
Downtown Rotary. In 2000 he served as Chair of the Mayor’s Search
Committee for the Seattle Chief of Police.
He received a BA in Economics from Howard University, an MBA in finance
and a Ph.D. in Finance and Economics from Ohio State University. He served
as Assistant and Associate Professor of Finance at the Graduate School
of Business at Stanford University from 1972 – 80. From 1980 –
94, he was Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland, where he
also served as Chair of the Finance Department and then Associate Dean
at the University of Maryland Business School.
Professor Bradford’s teaching areas are Corporate and Entrepreneurial
Finance, Financial Strategy, and Management of Financial Institutions.
His areas of research include small and minority business development,
entrepreneurship and business finance. In addition to the schools above,
he has taught at Ohio State, New York University, UCLA and Yale University.
He has been a consultant to numerous firms and has had international lectureships
in corporate finance and entrepreneurship in Indonesia, Egypt, the Ivory
Coast, South Korea, China and South Africa. He has authored or co–authored
three books and more than 50 articles on finance during his career.
Candida Brush
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Candida G. Brush is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and holder of the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College. She is also Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division and a visiting adjunct Professor to the Norwegian School of Engineering and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Formerly, Dr. Brush was an Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy, founder and Director of the Council for Women's Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CWEL), and Research Director for the Entrepreneurial Management Institute at Boston University. Dr. Brush teaches courses in Entrepreneurship in the undergraduate, MBA, doctoral, and Executive MBA programs. For two years, she was a Research Affiliate to Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping, Sweden. She received her DBA from Boston University, an MBA from Boston College and a BA from the University of Colorado.
She is a founding member of the Diana Project International, a research collaborative of scholars from 20 countries
studying growth and financing strategies of women entrepreneurs world-wide. With her four co-researchers, she was named the
2007 recipient of the FSF- Swedish Research Foundation International Award for Outstanding Research Contributions in the
Field of Entrepreneurship. Prentice Hall- Financial Times published their book,
Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses (2004). Dr. Brush is the author of seven
books, 20 book chapters and 90 articles published in scholarly journals including Journal of Business Venturing,
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education,
Academy of Management Executive, and Annals of Political and Social Science. She is an Editor for
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and serves on the editorial review boards for
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Business Horizons and the International Journal of Female Entrepreneurship. She
has written book chapters for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on women's entrepreneurship and economic development.
Dr. Brush was on the founding team for the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) a national study exploring start-up
processes of nascent entrepreneurs, and was a co-recipient of the National Science Foundation Award as part of this
research. She is the recipient of the Entrepreneurship Mentor Award, given by the National Academy of Management
Entrepreneurship Division in recognition for her support and mentorship of doctoral students and new faculty
researchers in the Entrepreneurship field. In 2008, she was inducted as a 21st Century Scholar by the Global
Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. She has served on more than 15 PhD dissertation committees and mentored more
than 25 doctoral students. Dr. Brush was one of 18 researchers selected to participate in the 1995
White House Conference Research Project: The Future of Small Business and Entrepreneurship into the Year 2010, and
was recognized by INC Magazine in 1995 as one of the top 16 researchers in Entrepreneurship in the US. In 1997 she was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) and served for 3 years. She is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Women's Business Research and Children Without Borders (Costa Rica), and serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Women in Enterprise. She is a member of the Boston Harbor Angels and an active angel investor, serving on several boards of early stage private companies. She has advised hundreds of student businesses and new venture teams over the past 20 years.
William Jackson
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Dr. William E. Jackson III holds the appointments of Professor of Finance, Professor of Management, and the Smith Foundation Endowed Chair of Business Integrity in the Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama. Before joining the faculty at the University of Alabama, Dr. Jackson was a financial economist and associate policy advisor in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. At the Atlanta Fed, Dr. Jackson conducted original research on financial markets and financial institutions. He was also an advisor to the Bank on the making of monetary policy in the US. Previous to his position at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Dr. Jackson was an associate professor of finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His academic areas of expertise are financial intermediation and industrial economics. Dr. Jackson's research centers on the role financial markets and financial institutions play in making the modern economy more efficient and productive. Specific areas of research include corporate governance, entrepreneurial finance, monetary policy and macroeconomics, industrial economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, financial literacy, and public policy.
Dr. Jackson earned his BA in economics and applied mathematics at Centre College, his MBA in finance at Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Jackson's research has been published in some of the leading academic journals in the areas of empirical economics,
management, and financial institutions and markets. His articles have appeared in such journals as, the
Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, the
Review of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Management Science, the
Journal of Small Business Management and Small Business Economics Journal. Dr. Jackson is currently an
Associate Editor of one of the premier small firm research journals, the Journal of Small Business Management.
And, his monograph on "The Future of Credit Unions: Public Policy Issues," was published by The Filene Research Institute in 2004.
In July 2004, Dr. Jackson provided expert testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives on the deregulation of credit
unions. In 2005 and 2006 he served as Founding Special Issue Editor for the Journal of Small Business Management. The
special issue was entitled, "Small Firm Finance, Governance, and Imperfect Capital Markets". Currently, Dr. Jackson is engaged in on-going research projects in the areas of: venture capital investment strategies and performance; CEO compensation and M&A analysis; government intervention in the small firm credit market; and the unintended effects of regulations on financial markets and institutions. Additionally, in 2009, one of his manuscripts was selected to be published in the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management Meeting. He is also an inaugural member of the prestigious Filene Fellows Program.
Margaret C. Levenstein
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Professor Margaret Levenstein is Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Economics and Executive Director of the
Michigan Census Research Data Center at the Institute for Social Research. She received her Ph.D. in
economics (with distinction) from Yale University, where she specialized in industrial organization and U.S.
economic history. She has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts, Michigan State University, and Albion
College, and was a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Professor Levenstein's first book, Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation
was published by Stanford University Press. This monograph uses the early history of the Dow Chemical Company as a
case study to evaluate the role of modern accounting and information systems in the growth of the firm in the early part
of the twentieth century. Professor Levenstein has also published extensively on a variety of subjects in the history of
business and economics including: the evolution of information systems; the relationship between information systems and
firm organization; historical changes in the nature of competition; cartels in the chemical industry; and the history of
African-American entrepreneurship. Her current research falls into two areas: a study of information networks and the
role of early venture capital markets in Midwestern industrialization and a study (joint with Professor Valerie
Suslow) of contemporary international cartels and the design of competition policy for a global economy.
Professor Levenstein resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and two daughters.
Alicia Robb
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Dr. Alicia Robb is a Senior Research Fellow with the Kauffman Foundation, a Senior Economist with Beacon Economics, and a Research Associate at the University of California in Santa Cruz. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Kauffman Firm Survey, an eight year longitudinal survey of firm start ups in the United States. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in economic development and econometrics. Her dissertation was on the role of race, gender, and discrimination in business survival of U.S. employer businesses. She has worked as a staff economist for an economic consulting firm and as an economist for the Office of Economic Research in the Small Business Administration and for the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Her main interests are entrepreneurial finance, minority and women's entrepreneurship, firm dynamics, and small business development. She is an expert on firm level data and firm surveys. She has taught economics and economic development courses at universities in the D.C. and Bay Areas, as well as abroad. Dr. Alicia Robb is also the founder of the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD), an international development organization working in six countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and remains on the Board of Directors. She lives with her husband and a multitude of animals in Marin County, California.
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