Dr Melissa Crum is an artist, author, researcher, and founder of Mosaic Education Network, LLC. Mosaic Education Network is a consulting company that infuses the arts, research, storytelling and critical thinking into professional development, community building, and curriculum development. Mosaic helps participants have healthy ways of thinking about themselves, their future, and their connection to a diverse world. She has conducted professional development trainings, given presentations, and facilitated projects across the United States and internationally. Dr Crum also uses her skills to fulfill her role as an ARTrepreneur Specialist working with the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise at The Ohio State University. Through her position, she aides in creating a skills-sharing community of novices and new business owners and experts.
Dr Per Darmer is an associate professor at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and a member of imagine center for creative industries research. He has coedited “Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy,” Elward Elgar (2008), and managed a number of major research projects such as “Cinema” (2004 to 2007). His area of interest is organizational theory and the Danish music and film industries, as well as the relationship between art and organizing are among the contexts of his studies.
Andreja Jaklic is a full professor and research fellow at the Centre of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Her research and teaching spans across three disciplinary areas, including International Business, International Economics, and European studies (EU in a global economy). Her main research interests are on internationalization, export, foreign direct investment, foreign entry strategy, multinational enterprises, particularly multinational enterprises from former transition economies and their effects on competitiveness, growth, productivity, and innovation. She earned her experience from several academic and applied international research projects (European framework programs, COST Action program and regional projects, business intelligence projects and workshops, consultancy to international organizations (such as European commission, UNCTAD and the OECD), as well as to national governmental agencies and business. Her publications include monographs, Enhanced Transition through Outward Internationalization: Outward FDI by Slovenian Firms (Ashgate Publishing 2003), several book chapters and over 30 articles, also in Journal of World Business, Transnational Corporations, The Services Industries Journal, Eastern European Economies and Post-Communist Economies. She is a co-founder and executive board member of Academy of International Business Central and Easter European Chapter (AIB— CEEC) and served as board member of European Academy of International Business (EIBA) from 2010 to 2016.
Paraskevi Karageorgu is a graduate in European studies. He specialized in European Cultural Policies (MA thesis research at KU Leuven) and has working experience from Ljubljana International Film Festival. He collaborated as journalist with Cineuropa—media for European Cinema and was a Jury Member of the Venice Days 2016.
Dr Sonia BasSheva Mañjon is the inaugural director of the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise, Associate Professor of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, Affiliate Faculty in Latina/o Studies and The STEAM Factory at The Ohio State University. The Center’s mission is to educate and prepare students for successful careers in the arts and related entrepreneurial fields through advancing and increasing an understanding of the business side of the arts and the worlds of arts management, policy, and culture. She has more than 25 years of experience in higher education, nonprofit, and government administration. Dr Mañjon is the former executive director of the Center for Art and Public Life, founding chair of the Community Arts major, and held the Simpson Endowed Professorship of Community Arts at the California College of the Arts (CCA). Highlights of her tenure at CCA include executive leadership of a six-year campus-wide diversity initiative, and the establishment of the Community Arts Program, the first BFA program of its kind in the United States. She also created the Center’s Visiting Artists and Scholars program; raised over $8 million dollars for CCA initiatives; and implemented 100 Families Oakland: Art & Social Change, a highly successful community program that engaged over 500 Oakland residents in art making and civic engagement. Dr Mañjon publications and video documentaries include: 100 Families Oakland: Art and Social Change; Crafting a Vision for Art, Equity and Civic Engagement: Convening the Community Arts Field in Higher Education; A Snap Shot: Landmarking Community Cultural Arts Organizations Nationally; Invisible Identity: Mujeres Dominicanas en California; and Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture: Tapa from Tonga and the Pacific Islands.
Deirdre McQuillan is a lecturer in strategy and international business at the University of Bradford School of Management. Her research area is grounded in the field of creative professional service firms such as architecture firms. She has published in the Journal of Business Strategy and Advances in Strategic Management on the internationalization process, business modeling, and strategy and talent alignment of creative professional service firms stemming from data collected within the architecture industry.
Robert Moussetis, DBA, has been at North Central College since 1998. He has a passion for international business and has traveled with more than 600 students to more than 20 countries. He has delivered seminars in Abu Dhabi, China, Costa Rica, Greece, and Japan and has presented papers in Austria, Brazil, Greece, Malaysia and Mexico. He has earned four best paper awards and has published articles in journals such as “Competitiveness Review,” “Journal of Management History,” and “Journal of International Business Research and Practice.” He also had eight years of managerial experience at a Fortune 500 firm.
J. Mark Munoz is a tenured Full Professor of International Business at Millikin University in Illinois, and a former Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a recipient of several awards including four Best Research Paper Awards, a Literary Award, an International Book Award, and the ACBSP Teaching Excellence Award among others. He was recognized by the Academy of Global Business Advancement as the 2016 Distinguished Business Dean. Aside from top-tier journal publications, he has authored/edited/co-edited 14 books : Land of My Birth, Winning Across Borders, In Transition, A Salesman in Asia, Handbook of Business Plan Creation, International Social Entrepreneurship, Contemporary Microenterprises : Concepts and Cases, Handbook on the Geopolitics of Business, Hispanic-Latino Entrepreneurship, Business Plan Essentials, Managerial Forensics, and Strategies for University Management (Volume I and II) and Advances in Geoeconomics. He directs consulting projects worldwide in the areas of strategy formulation, business development, and international finance.
Joobin Ordoobody has finished two years of PhD research and coursework in International Management and Organization at Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, where he was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Fellowship in 2014. He also provides consulting for “Beewaz,” a major art review online database in Iran. His main research areas include Organizational theory, international business, and creative industries.
Alireza Saify is a management scholar with an MSc in Public Administration. His research focuses on institutional theory, specifically the transaction between corporations and institutional logics.
Musicologist Mark C. Samples currently teaches music history and arts entrepreneurship at Central Washington University, and researches the role of branding and promotion in music after 1800, from Jenny Lind to Joan Baez, Tom Waits and Sufjan Stevens. Outside of the classroom, Dr Samples creates arts entrepreneurship tools and training for student and professional musicians, such as his workshop, “Branding for Musicians.” At his current position, and previously as a Coleman Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Millikin University, he has led teams of student musicians in the process of designing entrepreneurial ventures that focus on value-creation.
Julienne (Julie) W. Shields obtained her BA in Classics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her MBA from Millikin University. Prior to joining Millikin, she spent 11 years in the information technology industry during which time she worked for Nims Associates, Inc. and owned two technology start-up businesses, Open Integration Incorporated which shared intellectual property with the University of Illinois and InVivo Ventures, LLC. In 2013 she joined Millikin University’s faculty and in the commitment to Millikin’s Performance Learning pedagogy led the Arts Entrepreneurship program including the Blue Connection retail art gallery learning laboratory for art and business students. Julie is currently the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and directs the Coleman Faculty Fellows program at Millikin University. She continues to foster the more than 15-year commitment to arts entrepreneurship and the development of artist entrepreneurs at the institution.
Aytug Sozuer is a lecturer of international business and entrepreneurship at University of Yalova, Turkey. He has a doctoral degree in Business Management and Organization from Istanbul University. Before joining academia, he worked at several multinational companies as a specialist in sales and exporting. His academic research fields of interest include governance, inter-firm relationships, and start-ups.
Larry Stapleton is an Associate professor of Operations Management at Millikin University in Decatur, IL, USA. He earned a BS in Applied Science from Miami University, an MBA from Chapman University, and a PhD in Decision Science with an emphasis in International Business from St. Louis University. He has served on the faculty at Millikin University since 2001. He has developed multiple international projects for students which are client based. He served in several engineering and management roles in Fortune 500 companies over 25 years before coming to Millikin. His current consulting and research is in the development of Quality Management Systems and the use of heuristic methodologies in developing solutions for logistic problems.
Todd A. Stuart is a Lecturer and the Director of the Arts Management & Entrepreneurship program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has over 20 years industry experience in the arts and entrepreneurship. In addition to his work at Miami, he is working on a start-up focused on helping practicing artists develop entrepreneurial skills. Todd holds an MBA and MFA from the University of South Carolina; and a BA from the University of Florida.
Sara Theis is an Assistant Professor of Stage Management and Theatre Administration at Millikin University. Since arriving at Millikin, she has been a Coleman Fellow and has spent a great deal of time focused in the area of Arts Entrepreneurship through her work with Pipe Dreams Studio Theatre. A member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2001, Sara received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her MBA from Millikin University.