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Susan Duffy
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Dr. Susan Duffy teaches entrepreneurship, management, and organizational behavior courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is committed to creating learning experiences that change students' lives. Professor Duffy is first and foremost an entrepreneur and has brought opportunity-based thinking and behavior to work as a university professor, an association director, a business owner, and a consultant. She has won numerous awards for teaching, service and leadership. She is recognized as a source of thought and initiative in advancing entrepreneurship, developing innovative education programs, and delivering system-wide value in diverse organizations.
Professor Duffy earned her Ph.D. from the George Washington University (GWU) in Management and Organization, a Master's Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition Science from the Pennsylvania State University. At Simmons College she serves as the Director of the Undergraduate Entrepreneurship program and faculty advisor of the CEO club and the student-run Edun Live on Campus fair-trade apparel company. While completing her doctorate, Dr. Duffy was a member of the GWU Department of Management faculty where she served as the Executive Director of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and founded the GWU Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (WEL) initiative. WEL was subsequently recognized as the National Model Specialty Program in Entrepreneurship Education by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Currently, Dr. Duffy serves on the board of directors of the International Council for Small Business and the Center for Women's Business Research. She also volunteers as an instructor in Venturing Out, a Massachusetts non-profit corporation that teaches entrepreneurship to incarcerated and court-involved adults and high-risk youth.
Before entering academia, Dr. Duffy was co-owner of a family business commercial construction company and owned and operated the Ho-Lee-Chow Chinese Food franchise restaurant. She has held leadership positions in health care and worked as an organizational consultant and trainer in private and public work systems.
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