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.
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 |
Dan Wang
Associate Professor of Business;
Co-Director, Tamer Center for Social Enterprise |
Inclusive Entrepreneurship; Tech Strategy; Management; Social Movements |
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 Emeritus of Ethics and Corporate Governance,
Management;
Former 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 |
Damon J. Phillips
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of Business;
Former Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise |
Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Management; 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 |
Julius Mokrauer
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Management and Social Enterprise |
Social Ventures; Social Entrepreneurship; Early-stage impact venture funds |
Erin McMahon
Adjunct Associate Professor,
Management and Social Enterprise |
Education and Leadership; Nonprofit consulting and management; Social Entrepreneurship and Education; Public education |
Mark Zurack
Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business,
Finance |
ESG Investing; Capital Markets; Portfolio construction; Risk management; and Quantitative research |
R.A. Farrokhnia
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia Business and Engineering Schools;
Advanced Projects and Applied Research in Fintech
|
Fintech, financial inclusion; ESG, data/ML/AI, innovation, deep tech; Tech solutions and startups for social impact; Cross-Atlantic and cross-Pacific entrepreneurial development |
Joy Fairbanks
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Management
|
Entrepreneurship; Finance; Innovation; Strategy |
