Hello everyone,
The Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship and Information Systems (SDEIS) in the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University has one available and one pending entrepreneurship position. Details for each are below:
- Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship - link will be posted as soon as final approval in received.
Responsibilities for both positions include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship as well as publishing high quality research on entrepreneurship topics in top-tier journals. In addition, the Professor/Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship is to play a leading role in developing and delivering research, education, and outreach agendas in entrepreneurship.
The SDEIS offers myriad entrepreneurship programs including a bachelor of entrepreneurship degree, entrepreneurship minor, and Fellows Program.
- The bachelor of entrepreneurship is a 120-hour program and must be paired with another bachelor's degree from any college on campus (e.g., engineering, mass communications, business, or music) as part of a paired-degree earning a minimum of 150 hours.
- The minor is open to any LSU student and builds upon the core business curriculum by providing students with focused coursework needed for starting, owning, and/or growing a business.
- The multi-disciplinary Entrepreneurship Fellows Program​ is a year-long program designed to encourage business and entrepreneurial practices in a select group of graduate or undergraduate students from across the university by providing students with the opportunity to network with and be mentored by faculty and executives.
- As part of these programs, the SDEIS offers courses including innovation, business planning, technology commercialization, as well as a cutting edge topics course in digital entrepreneurship. In addition, being housed in an information systems (IS) department opens up collaboration opportunities with faculty and PhD students conducting research in IS topics like artificial intelligence, analytics, and more.
Additional campus resources include an Ideation Lab, Student Incubator, a $25,000 Venture Challenge business plan competition, and opportunities for involvement in the entrepreneurial ecosystem through events such as Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week (BREW).
Additional details about the department and its programs are available here. LSU is committed to diversity and is an equal opportunity / equal access employer.
Representatives from the SDEIS department will conduct interviews at the Academy of Management meeting in Chicago next month.
Please let me know if you have any questions about either position (FranzLohrke@lsu.edu).
Best regards,
Franz T. Lohrke
Alvin C. Copeland Professor of Franchising and Entrepreneurship
Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship and Information Systems
E. J. Ourso College of Business
Louisiana State University
3023 Business Education Complex East
501 South Quad Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
(225) 578-2126
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