Grove City College’s School of Business will welcome Dr. Siri A. Terjesen – an internationally recognized expert in business, higher education, and philanthropy – to speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8 in the Colonnade at Carnegie Alumni Center.
Terjesen will discuss how government regulation impacts entrepreneurship and business innovation in the 21st century. The lecture is free and open to the public.
“We’re excited to welcome Siri Terjesen to campus because she’s one of the world’s leading scholars on the economics of corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and regulation,” Dr. Caleb Fuller ’13, professor of Economics, said. “Siri is highly versatile, equally at home in the scholarly conversation as she is at communicating these important ideas to the public. Anyone interested in understanding threats to the American economy’s historic dynamism will benefit from Siri’s expertise.”
Terjesen is associate dean of Research & External Relations, the founding executive director of the Madden Center for Value Creation, and the Phil Smith Professor of Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University and is a professor at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway. Prior to academia, Dr. Terjesen worked as a management consultant with Accenture in the U.S. and Germany.
Her lengthy resume includes work on the National Board for Education Services, which advises the U.S. Department of Education; as a reviewer for U.S. and international higher education agencies and private foundations such as John Templeton and Rising Tide; as a researcher with Catalyst (New York), Indiana University’s Institute for Development Strategies, and the Ratio Institute (Stockholm); and publication in academic and general interest publications. She also serves as editor of Academy of Management Perspectives, Small Business Economics, Industry & Innovation, and Beta.