J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship@Cornell
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior
367 Ives Hall
Department of Sociology
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-254-8857
Email: mdl18@cornell.edu

Lounsbury has recently developed new undergraduate and graduate courses on social entrepreneurship that are being offered at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. The undergraduate course focuses on broader sociological approaches to the contemporary dynamics of the nonprofit sector and the integration of more entrepreneurial techniques and practices. The graduate course focuses more exclusively on social entrepreneurship--how hybrid nonprofit-for-profit models are being developed to create and sustain value in the social sector. These courses aim to provide students with the tools and techniques needed to engage in social entrepreneurship and build careers in the social sector. In addition, he has commenced a new research program on social entrepreneurship.

Lounsbury received a B.A. in economics from Middlebury College, an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in sociology and organization behavior from Northwestern. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 1998, he worked for several years as a management consultant, as a marketing manager in a Silicon Valley high technology start-up, and taught the Management of Organizational Change at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is an active member of the American Sociological Association, the Academy of Management, the European Group on Organizations, INFORMS and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. He is the series editor for Research in the Sociology of Organizations, published by Elsevier, serves on a number of top scholarly journal editorial boards and has published in a variety of top sociology and management journals.