The Department of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business (LSB) invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management (tenure-track) starting fall 2018. We seek candidates who are effective teachers, scholars, and mentors to teach strategic management in the LSB's undergraduate and master's programs. Successful applicants will also possess the ability and desire to teach entrepreneurship courses and in Elon's core curriculum. We will show preference to candidates who have experience as an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at an AACSB-accredited university. In addition, we will show preference to candidates who possess an earned doctorate from an AACSB-accredited university by the time of employment and who have previous industry experience in strategy development and implementation.
Our faculty are both dynamic teachers who promote engaged learning and leading scholars who publish their work in top journals. To support our teacher/scholar mission, we provide extensive teaching and research development programs, including pre-tenure sabbatical, summer and academic year research grants and course releases, and teaching workshops.
About the School: The AACSB-accredited Martha and Spencer Love School of Business (LSB) has emerged from a time of dramatic growth to become a leader in undergraduate business education. In 2016, Poets & Quants and Bloomberg Businessweek independently ranked the school's undergraduate program #39 and #48 in the nation, respectively. In 2015, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the part-time MBA program #1 in the state and #17 in the nation. The LSB is housed in the Koury Business Center, which features state-of-the-art classrooms, multiple student engagement areas, the LaRose Digital Theatre, the Chandler Family Professional Sales Center, the Reed Finance Center, the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, the Center for Organizational Analytics, and the Porter Family Professional Development Center. This summer, construction will begin on Sankey Hall, which will house additional classrooms, office space, and meeting facilities for LSB students and faculty. Our diverse faculty thrive in Elon's collegial and supportive environment.
About the University: Elon University is a dynamic private, co-educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning in a liberal arts based residential campus. The university is situated on an idyllic 620 acre campus in north-central North Carolina, east of Greensboro, and northwest of Raleigh/Durham. With an enrollment of over 6000, Elon University benefits from highly talented students, a growing physical plant, and an expanding endowment. U.S. News & World Report ranks Elon #1 among southern master's-level universities and recognizes Elon more often than any other university in the nation for programs that are "Focused on Student Success," and the Fiske Guide to Colleges ranks Elon one of the 26 "best buy" private universities. Elon University is proud of its strengths in the liberal arts, its strong sense of community, and its progress in incorporating technology and internationalization into classroom instruction. To learn more about Elon, please visit the University web site at www.elon.edu.
To Apply: Please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, information on teaching evaluations, and a list of three references to: buschair@elon.edu (subject line: Strategic Management Opening), or to Strategic Management Faculty Search Committee, Department of Management, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, Elon University, 2075 Campus Box, Elon, NC 27244. All other inquiries about the position should be directed to Dr. Brian Lyons at blyons4@elon.edu. Review of candidates will begin in early July 2017 and candidates of interest will be notified to schedule a telephone interview or in-person interview at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
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