2013 Ella Baker Day, College of Charleston
On Thursday, April 11th we had the third Ella Baker Day. It took place at the College of Charleston.
hosted by the African American Studies Program, College of Charleston
co-sponsored by the Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
Keynote Speaker, Gregory Fairchild
E. Thayer Bigelow Research Associate Professor
“Activism through Entrepreneurship: Challenges & Opportunities”
Gregory Fairchild Bio
E. Thayer Bigelow Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Fairchild teaches strategic management, entrepreneurship and ethics in Darden’s MBA and Executive Education programs. He serves as a faculty director of Darden’s Institute for Business in Society, and has received a number of awards for teaching excellence at the Darden School.
His research is likewise renowned, as he was recently the lead investigator studying business models and public policy issues in the field of community development finance, an initiative supported by a three-year $850,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Fairchild was named one of five high impact research professors, and the sole scholar focused in entrepreneurship by the Financial Times (January 2010). In 2009, he received a faculty Pioneer Award presented by the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education for his leadership and risk taking in integrating ethical, environmental and social issues into the MBA curriculum. In 2012, he was named one of the “Top 50 Business School Professors in the World by Poets and Quants, and one of the “Top Ten Business School Professors” in the World by CNN Money/Fortune. His multidisciplinary work has been cited by Inc. Magazine, The Economist, National Public Radio, New York Times and the Washington Post, among others.
Fairchild worked in marketing positions for such industry leaders as Kraft General Foods, Procter & Gamble and Saks Fifth Avenue before embarking on his doctoral studies. Fairchild has past served on the Virginia Retirement Service (VRS), the Commonwealth's public pension fund, and currently serves on the board of the University Physician’s Group. In addition to his teaching and research, he is a consultant to corporations, nonprofits and governmental agencies.
hosted by the African American Studies Program, College of Charleston
co-sponsored by the Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
Keynote Speaker, Gregory Fairchild
E. Thayer Bigelow Research Associate Professor
“Activism through Entrepreneurship: Challenges & Opportunities”
Gregory Fairchild Bio
E. Thayer Bigelow Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Fairchild teaches strategic management, entrepreneurship and ethics in Darden’s MBA and Executive Education programs. He serves as a faculty director of Darden’s Institute for Business in Society, and has received a number of awards for teaching excellence at the Darden School.
His research is likewise renowned, as he was recently the lead investigator studying business models and public policy issues in the field of community development finance, an initiative supported by a three-year $850,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Fairchild was named one of five high impact research professors, and the sole scholar focused in entrepreneurship by the Financial Times (January 2010). In 2009, he received a faculty Pioneer Award presented by the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education for his leadership and risk taking in integrating ethical, environmental and social issues into the MBA curriculum. In 2012, he was named one of the “Top 50 Business School Professors in the World by Poets and Quants, and one of the “Top Ten Business School Professors” in the World by CNN Money/Fortune. His multidisciplinary work has been cited by Inc. Magazine, The Economist, National Public Radio, New York Times and the Washington Post, among others.
Fairchild worked in marketing positions for such industry leaders as Kraft General Foods, Procter & Gamble and Saks Fifth Avenue before embarking on his doctoral studies. Fairchild has past served on the Virginia Retirement Service (VRS), the Commonwealth's public pension fund, and currently serves on the board of the University Physician’s Group. In addition to his teaching and research, he is a consultant to corporations, nonprofits and governmental agencies.