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Siri Jerjensen at Indiana University focuses on the connections and success factors between social, environmental and economic development. Terjesen is currently examining institutional barriers to female entrepreneurship as part of a project with the United Nations University. Read the full article.
IU Professor Named Finalist of the Aspen Institute’s 2008 Faculty Pioneer Awards
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Nov. 5, 2008
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education (Aspen CBE) today (Nov. 5) announced the finalists of the 2008 Faculty Pioneer Awards.
This annual recognition celebrates MBA faculty who have demonstrated leadership and risk-taking in integrating social and environmental issues into academic research, educational programs and business practice. Amongst this year's finalists is Siri Terjesen, assistant professor at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
Terjesen's recent research explores entrepreneurship and economic development among disadvantaged people in developing countries. Her social entrepreneurshipstudy of a "better rat trap" for the untouchable tribe of Irula in remote villages of Tamilnadu, India, was recently published in the Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice Journal and featured in the Christian Science Monitor and US News & World Report. This research highlights the role of innovation, human capital and context-driven strategy in facilitating social entrepreneurship success. Read the full article.
Dr SIRI TERJESEN, Queensland University of Technology, Australia is a post-doctoral research fellow at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and summer teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s programmes in London and Beijing at the University of Peking. Siri completed a PhD at Cranfield School of Management in the UK and a Master’s in International Business as a Fulbright Scholar to the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, Norway
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