Our current director, Dr. Ballesteros, was appointed in the Fall of 2024 (News Center Release), and she is building on the previous work done by her predecessors with a dedicated team of students.
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The Team
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Dr. Maria Ballesteros-Sola
Dr. Maria Ballesteros-Sola, DBA, MBA, Fulbright Scholar (1998-2000), Paul R. Lawrence Fellow (2016) serves as Associate Professor of Management & the Entrepreneurship & Small Business Institute’s Director.
Her research focuses on social enterprises, hybrid organizations, and B Corps. She has published in the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Social Business, the International Journal of Management Education, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy, Case Research Journal, and the Journal of Social Business. She serves on several editorial review boards, is the chair of the Social Impact Track for North America Case Research Association (NACRA) and is the SAGE Publishing Social Impact Case Collection editor. Her cases have won several awards in both NACRA and USASBE annual conferences. Dr. Ballesteros-Sola also serves on the boards of the Case Research Foundation, The Case Centre UK, Women Economic Ventures (WEV) and Start-Up Kids, a local social enterprise that she co-founded. She is also a B Academic’s co-founder and provides strategic and tactical guidance to non-profits and social enterprises. Before moving to the United States, she had a career in financial services (VISA, Bankinter) and management consulting (Cap Gemini, Indra, etc.) on both sides of the Atlantic (US, Mexico, UK & Spain), helping banks and other organizations to use technology to achieve their business objectives.
Dr. Ballesteros-Sola is also a strong advocate for the use of high impact practices such as experiential and service-learning, learning communities, international experiences, the case method and humanizing technology in higher education.
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Batuhan Berkdemir
Major: Business, Option in Marketing
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Citlali Martinez
Major: Business, Option in Marketing
Affiliated Faculty
We have tenure track faculty and a distinguished team of lecturers supporting our efforts.
- Dr. Ekin Pehlivan
- Dr. Minder Chen
- Dr. Michael Seay
- Dr. Ray Bowman
- Dr. Dale Deardorff
- Dr. Alan Jaeger
- Nick Norris