About: People
Several faculty and staff are associated with Clemson University's Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership. For general inquiries about the Spiro Institute, please contact Debbie Allen.
| Senior Fellow, Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership Director, Innovation and Public Policy, International Center for Automotive Research | |
| Associate Director, Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership | |
| Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership(Endowed), Professor of Management | |
| Director, Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Professor of Management | |
| Faculty, Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership | |
Jon Wilken |
Adjunct Lecturer, Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership |
| Michael Mino |
Adjunct Lecturer, Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership |
Debbie Allen |
Administrative Assistant, Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership |
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Other affiliated faculty:
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Dan Benjamin |
Professor of Economics |
Dan Bradley |
Assistant Professor of Finance |
Jill Burroughs |
Director, Small Business Development Center |
Peter Gianiodis |
Assistant Professor of Management |
William Haller |
Assistant Professor of Sociology |
Xiaobo Hu |
Associate Professor of Political Science |
Scott Jones |
Assistant Professor of Marketing |
Kathy Kegley |
Lecturer, Management |
Robert McCormick |
BB&T Scholar Professor of Economics |
Jeff McMillan |
Professor of Accountancy |
Philip Roth |
Professor of Management |
Ben Smith |
Program Coordinator, Small Business Development Center |
Wayne Stewart |
Associate Professor of Management |
Bruce Yandle |
Professor Emeritus of Economics |
Yanfeng Zheng |
Assistant Professor of Management |
Senior Fellow of the Spiro Institute
Clemson University
Dave Bodde holds a joint appointment in the College of Business & Behavioral Science and the College of Engineering & Science, and he is a Senior Fellow of the Spiro Institute. He has extensive experience in energy policy and technology assessment, and his current work focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the innovation and commercialization of energy technologies. Prior to joining Clemson, Dr. Bodde held the Charles N. Kimball Chair in Technology and Innovation at the Henry W. Block School of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri, Kansas City. He has served as corporate vice president, Midwest Research Institute, and president of MRI’s for-profit subsidiary, MRI Ventures. He was executive director of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems; assistant director, Congressional Budget Office; deputy assistant secretary, DOE; and manager, Engineering Analysis Office, Energy Systems Division, TRW, Inc. He has worked on numerous studies involving nuclear energy, coal, synthetic fuels, electric utilities, renewable energy technologies, and commercialization. He recently served as chairman of the Environmental Management Board, advising the DOE on the cleanup of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, and is a member of the NRC Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. His current work includes research and teaching in the strategic use of technology to create new ventures in energy, the environment, and education. Dr. Bodde has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He holds the Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard University (1976); Master of Science degrees in nuclear engineering (1972) and management (1973), both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); and a B.S. from the United States Military Academy (1965).
Associate Director, Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership
College of Business and Behavioral Science
Kim Dawson is the Associate Director of the Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson University.
Dr. Dawson oversees the Spiro Institute’s service learning activities and many of the outreach programs. She came to Clemson University in 1994 and served as a development officer in the advancement division for nine years, where she raised private funds from alumni, corporations and foundations to support the educational, research and outreach missions of the university. She received a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1984. Upon graduation, she worked as a design engineer for Westinghouse-Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh, PA for three years. She returned to graduate school at Georgia Tech in 1987 and earned a M.S. degree in Technology and Science Policy in 1990. From 1990-1994, she completed her Ph.D. in History at the University of Georgia, specializing in the history of science and technology and U.S. industrial history.
Arthur M. Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Behavioral Science
William B. Gartner became the Arthur M. Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Clemson University on June 1, 2004. Prior to joining Clemson University, he was on the faculty at Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, San Francisco State University, and, the Henry W. Simonsen Chair of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California (USC). While at USC he helped lead their program to Success Magazine's #1 ranking for entrepreneurship programs in 1998, and top 5 rankings for entrepreneurship programs in U.S. News and World Report and Business Week.
He co-founded the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium in 1995, which initiated, developed and managed the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), the first major national longitudinal dataset on nascent entrepreneurship. He served as lead editor on a comprehensive overview of the PSED, the Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, which was published by Sage in 2004. In November 2004, he hosted the first annual Clemson University /Kauffman Foundation Symposium on the PSED which focused on recent scholarly work on this dataset.
His service to the entrepreneurship field has included two consecutive terms as Chair of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division (1985 + 1986), special issue editorships for the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP), and Editorial Board memberships with the Academy of Management Review (AMR), Journal of Management (JOM), JBV, ETP, and the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM). His research has: been published in AMR, JBV, ETP, JOM and JSBM; and he has won awards from the Academy of Management, ETP, and the Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. His research has been funded by the Kauffman Foundation, Coleman Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Small Business Foundation of America, the Los Angeles Times, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the Corporate Design Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His current research on nascent entrepreneurs explores how they: find and identify opportunities, recognize and solve startup problems, and undertake actions to successfully launch new ventures. He is also collecting and analyzing the stories entrepreneurs tell about their entrepreneurial adventures.
Director, Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Professor of Management
College of Business and Behavioral Science
Caron St. John joined the faculty of Clemson University in 1988. She is a full professor in the department of management and serves as the Director of the Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Dr. St. John has participated in grants receiving over $1.5 million in funding from U.S. SBA, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the National Science Foundation. She has published over 30 articles in leading scholarly journals including Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Organizational Research Methods, as well as two textbooks in strategic management. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that address the business, operations, and technology strategies of firms. During her tenure as director of the Spiro Institute, she has developed several new curriculum initiatives in entrepreneurship, planned and implemented several outreach programs that link graduate business students and experienced business executives with inventors and entrepreneurs for assistance and mentoring, created a competitive research grants program for faculty and graduate students, and raised the profile of entrepreneurship activities on campus. She has also involved the Spiro Institute in several collaborations on campus and in the state that are intended to spur economic development through technology-based entrepreneurial initiatives. She is a founding board member of the Upstate Coalition for Entrepreneurial Development, serves on the Clemson University Research Foundation board, and serves on the advisory boards of various start-up firms and seed capital funds. Before pursuing an academic career, she was a chemist with Celanese Corporation in Charlotte, NC where she was involved with new product development and new business development. She has a B.S in chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), and a MBA and PhD in business from Georgia State University.
A successful entrepreneur with over 60 inventions sold to major toy companies, David Wyman seeks to make a difference in the education of budding entrepreneurs and leaders. Wyman joined the Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Clemson University in January 2008 and teaches both Entrepreneurial and Executive Leadership 301 and 401. Previously, Wyman was the founder of the Leadership Institute for Entrepreneurs (LIFE) at University of San Diego (USD), an organization established to bring entrepreneurs together in the San Diego region. In addition, he started the Student International Business Council (SIBC), the fastest growing student organization in the business school with over 80 students in the spring of 2006 and was instrumental in obtaining a one million dollar endowment for the Club. A passionate teacher with excellent evaluations, Dave was selected “Professor of the Year” by the USD business students for 2006. Wyman has continued to develop toy products and developed a new ethics game, What Would Zaki Do?, which was introduced last summer by the firm Life’s Building Blocks. One of his most successful games was 13 Dead End Drive with over 3 million copies sold worldwide. Wyman has a BA Honors (Economics), from Queens’ College, Cambridge University, and a MBA from Cranfield University in England. Presently, he is candidate for a Ph.D. at the University of Aberdeen centering on sustainable golf course developments and real estate