Email: Andrea_Hershatter@bus.emory.edu
Phone: 404-727-0327
Fax 404-712-9509
1300 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
Andrea Hershatter is Associate Dean and Director of the BBA Program in Emory’s Goizueta Business School. She has led this program for the last twelve years and has helped to achieve its fourth consecutive BusinessWeek ranking in the Top 10, including three rankings in the top 5 among undergraduate business programs. Andrea holds a faculty position in the Organization and Management area, where she teaches entrepreneurship, a course she also teaches as a visiting faculty member in the Helsinki School of Economics. Her research focuses on intellectual capital, creativity, corporate innovation and cultural agency, passions she combines with a strong interest in popular culture and music. She is a frequent lecturer and consultant on the Millennial generation, and recently chaired the Graduate Management Admission Council’s strategic advisory group on undergraduate student outreach. Andrea serves on the editorial board for PINK, a national professional woman’s magazine, and on the advisory board of the Economic Empowerment Initiative and B2 Behind the Scenes, both non-profit organizations focused on inner-city youth. She is also on the board of three mid-sized ventures, and consults to several other entrepreneurial companies. She is co-author of Business at the Speed of Molasses, a book about vision-based strategies that is pending publication. Andrea is additionally active in a wide array of professional organizations and routinely holds leadership roles on multiple Emory committees, including the President’s Council on the Status of Women. Andrea is the recipient of the university-wide Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award and the Don Keough Award for Excellence. She is a frequent presenter on the topics of entrepreneurship, generational attitudes and perceptions, and management education.
Education
Ph.D. candidate in Advanced Standing, Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
MBA, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1983
BSM, Freeman School, Tulane University, 1981