New Faculty Profiles: J.S. (Josephine) Nelson
HBS faculty comprises more than 300 scholars and practitioners who bring leading-edge research, extensive experience, and deep insights into the classroom, to organizations, and to managers. We asked new faculty at HBS about their background, their new roles, and their interests. What is your educational background? As I helped business people understand their legal liabilities, students headed to business school requested that I teach classes. I had found my passion: I taught in business schools for nearly 10 years before teaching in law school for most of the last five years. What’s your area of research and what led you to it? What led me to this work was helping entrepreneurs set up companies and thinking through what contributions they wanted their organizations to have. The Supreme Court has held that a corporation is a legal person, we need to ask who we want this person to be. How can we help these people act ethically toward pro-social ends? Corporations are huge engines of growth, and they control more resources than many sovereign governments. We must understand the role of businesses in society, and how we shape their actions. In addition, I am deeply committed to mentoring students, especially women and members of underrepresented groups, who might not have thought of a future in entrepreneurship. I was raised by a single mother who was an immigrant to this country. I have benefitted tremendously from people who shaped my career, and I want to pay that forward. What would you be doing if you weren’t a professor? Where are you from? What is something you like to do outside of your academic work? What’s your favorite book, movie, or piece of art? |
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