By Dan Nonte, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-4314
Posted 11-18-08
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Amanda Elam, visiting scholar of entrepreneurship at Babson College, will speak about women and entrepreneurship at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in Room 160 of the Bryan Building.
Her address, free and open to the public, is part of Global Entrepreneurship Week at UNCG, which also included a speech by Bill Stevenson, Lenovo’s manager of corporate social investments.
Elam, who earned her Ph.D. in sociology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006, studies gender and entrepreneurship across different countries and cultures. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed gender and entrepreneurship in 28 countries. She recently spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology.
Her interest in entrepreneurship and management emerged during her first job after college at an international logistics software start-up in North Carolina. In the course of her five-year tenure in human resources, marketing and sales, the company expanded from 38 to more than 200 employees and its annual revenue grew from nothing to millions of dollars.
Sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in the United States, Global Entrepreneurship Week is an initiative to inspire millions of young people in dozens of countries to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. Its activities are designed to help the next generation of entrepreneurs begin to acquire the knowledge, skills, networks and values needed to grow innovative, sustainable enterprises. For more information, visit www.unleashingideas.org.
At UNCG, the week is sponsored by BELL, or Building Entrepreneurial Learning for Life. Created in 2007, BELL promotes the application of entrepreneurial principles across campus.
