Faculty & Staff

Faculty members who teach in the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise include both professors at the forefront of their academic fields and full-time practitioners in social enterprise who teach as adjuncts. Both are a vital resource for MBA students and graduates. Social enterprise faculty members expose students to new ideas, theory, and research, offer educational and career advice, and provide a starting point for networking with organizations relevant to social enterprise areas in the nonprofit, public, and business sectors.

Faculty members are involved in research projects, external working groups, conference and student club activities, and student organized study trips. Read about other faculty activities in the news section.

Staff members of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise work closely with individual students and student clubs to provide experiential and educational learning opportunities, career advice, and connections between organizations and the social enterprise community at Columbia Business School, across Columbia University and beyond.

Faculty Member	Interest Areas
Damon J. Phillips Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise; Co-Director, Tamer Center for Social Enterprise	Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Management; Operations Management
Bruce Usher Co-Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise; Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director; Professor of Professional Practice	Finance and Sustainability; Renewable energy; Climate change; Capital Markets and environmental market mechanisms; Investment Management and Socially Responsible Investing; Commercial Banking, sustainable international development, and poverty, International project finance
Raymond Horton Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Ethics and Corporate Governance, Management; Director of social enterprise programs in Executive Education; Founder, Social Enterprise Program	Nonprofit and Public management; Public / Municipal finance and urban affairs; Modern political economy; Business Values and Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility
Geoffrey Heal Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Economics	Business and the environment; Environmental Conservation; Valuation of environmental assets and market mechanisms; Socially Responsible Investing; Sustainability; Managerial Economics; Risk Management, Derivatives and Insurance and Reinsurance; Homeland Security
Joseph Stiglitz Professor, Economics; Executive Director and Co-founder,The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)	Economics of Information; Globalization and global economic policies; International development; Political economy; Monetary and International economics; and other areas
Suresh Sundaresan Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation Professor of Financial Institutions, Finance and Economics	Microfinance; Microinsurance; Delivery mechanisms for emergency aid relief; Credit mechanisms in the developing world; Asset allocation; Debt markets
Linda Green Armand G. Erpf Professor of the Modern Corporation, Decision, Risk and Operations; Founder and co-director of the Columbia Alliance for Healthcare Management	Healthcare; operational efficiency and effectiveness in health care delivery systems; Operations research and management
Medini Singh Visiting Associate Professor, Decision, Risk and Operations	Service operations in the nonprofit and business sectors; Nonprofit management; Supply chain management; Manufacturing and service systems; Operations management
Melissa Berman Adjunct Professor, Management and Social Enterprise	Strategic Philanthropy and Social Venture Capital; Nonprofit and Foundation Management; Program Evaluations; Nonprofit Governance
Jonas Hjort Assistant Professor, Finance and Economics	International Development and Innovation; Small and Medium Enterprise Development; East Africa, Asia and other Emerging Markets
Amy Houston Adjunct Professor, Management and Social Enterprise	Nonprofit organizational development; Nonprofit consulting; Nonprofit governance
Georgia Levenson Keohane Adjunct Associate Professor, Management and Social Enterprise	Social entrepreneurship and innovation; International development and finance
Doug Bauer Adjunct Professor, Management and Social Enterprise	Nonprofit management, effectiveness, and innovation in social sector organizations; Philanthropy and foundations; Nonprofit finance and reporting; Nonprofit boards and governance; Fundraising
Ron Gonen Adjunct Professor, Management and Social Enterprise	Sustainability; Social Ventures; Social Entrepreneurship; Closed Loop Systems
Erin McMahon Adjunct Associate Professor, Management and Social Enterprise	Education and Leadership; Nonprofit consulting and management; Social Entrepreneurship and Education; Public education
R.A. Farrokhnia Columbia Business and Engineering Schools; Advanced Projects and Applied Research in Fintech; Executive Director, Dean's Office	Fintech, financial inclusion, ESG, data/ML/AI, innovation, deep tech, double and triple bottomline tech solutions and startups for social impact, cross-Atlantic and cross-Pacific entrepreneurial development

Staff Member	Area and Contact
Sandra Navalli Managing Director	Curriculum, General Questions E-mail: [email protected]
Katie Neff Research Assistant	Tamer Social Venture Fund, Cross-campus social entrepreneurship, Climate Change and Business E-mail: [email protected]
Matan Skolnik Manager	International Development Travel Fund, Student Clubs, Alumni Breakfast Series, Re-Entry Acceleration Program E-mail: [email protected]
Ivy Hatsengate Advisor	Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Program, Careers E-mail: [email protected]
Diana Rambeau Events and Community Engagement	Speakers; Conferences and Symposia; Annual Reception E-mail: [email protected]
Gwen Shufro Board Programs	Nonprofit Board Leadership Program, Awards Breakfast, Resource Development E-mail: [email protected]
Hannah Slow Communications	Communications and Marketing E-mail: [email protected]
Sandi Wright NY Programs	New York Nonprofit Partnerships E-mail: [email protected]