PATRICE PERRY-RIVERS
PATRICE PERRY-RIVERS, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Objective:
To inspire students to become successful managers and socially responsible business leaders; and to develop relevant research on business strategy and entrepreneurship focused on:
- resource position and entrepreneurship strategy,
- economic development and minority entrepreneurship,
- social institutions, social problems and social entrepreneurship, &
- corporate social responsibility (CSR), social impact, and firm strategy.
Dr. Patrice Perry-Rivers earned her Ph.D. in Management from Rutgers Business School, a Masters in Business Administration from Regent University, and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia. At present, she is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Dean in the Reginald F. Lewis College of Business, and the Co-founder and Director of the VSU Center for Entrepreneurship at Virginia State University.
She is committed to producing relevant, policy-impacting academic research on entrepreneurship, economic development, and social responsibility, and has published and/or developed several scholarly articles to that end. Her research efforts focus on resource position and entrepreneurial strategy, minority entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and embedding corporate social responsibility into firm strategy. Her research is published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the Journal of Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and has been presented at several noteworthy academic conferences, including the Academy of Management annual conference, the United States Association of Small Business Educators (USASBE) annual conference, and New York University's Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference.
Dr. Perry-Rivers also has over a decade of experience in corporate marketing/advertising and entrepreneurship. In corporate, she worked as a Senior Marketing Consultant responsible for a nearly $2 million account list and managed major real estate accounts and several specialty publications for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, the largest Virginia newspaper and, at the time, part of the media conglomerate that owned the Weather Channel and numerous other television stations and newspapers across the U.S. As an entrepreneur, she was the principal for a real estate team generating over $16 million in annual sales, ranking her in the top 10% of realtors within Hampton Roads, a top forty U.S. market, within her firm's first 3 years of existence. In her corporate and entrepreneurship roles, she was responsible for generating and/or managing millions of dollars, hundreds of clients, and very high levels of productivity.
She brings both her scholarly training and practical experience into the classroom, and seeks to inspire students toward success in their own careers. As an academic and professor, she has received numerous fellowships and scholarships, presented her research on entrepreneurial strategy, social entrepreneurship, and minority entrepreneurship at notable academic conferences, created research for publication in quality peer-reviewed academic journals, and taught at the college level for over a decade. Finally, she has a keen sense of social responsibility. She has co-founded or served social enterprises, faith-based and community organizations that seek to bolster the long-term economic productivity of at-risk youth and disadvantaged groups in Hampton Roads and Richmond. She seeks to embed the same strong sense of social responsibility within the strategic management and entrepreneurship courses she teaches, and the activities of the Centers she directs.
She is committed to producing relevant, policy-impacting academic research on entrepreneurship, economic development, and social responsibility, and has published and/or developed several scholarly articles to that end. Her research efforts focus on resource position and entrepreneurial strategy, minority entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and embedding corporate social responsibility into firm strategy. Her research is published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the Journal of Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and has been presented at several noteworthy academic conferences, including the Academy of Management annual conference, the United States Association of Small Business Educators (USASBE) annual conference, and New York University's Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference.
Dr. Perry-Rivers also has over a decade of experience in corporate marketing/advertising and entrepreneurship. In corporate, she worked as a Senior Marketing Consultant responsible for a nearly $2 million account list and managed major real estate accounts and several specialty publications for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, the largest Virginia newspaper and, at the time, part of the media conglomerate that owned the Weather Channel and numerous other television stations and newspapers across the U.S. As an entrepreneur, she was the principal for a real estate team generating over $16 million in annual sales, ranking her in the top 10% of realtors within Hampton Roads, a top forty U.S. market, within her firm's first 3 years of existence. In her corporate and entrepreneurship roles, she was responsible for generating and/or managing millions of dollars, hundreds of clients, and very high levels of productivity.
She brings both her scholarly training and practical experience into the classroom, and seeks to inspire students toward success in their own careers. As an academic and professor, she has received numerous fellowships and scholarships, presented her research on entrepreneurial strategy, social entrepreneurship, and minority entrepreneurship at notable academic conferences, created research for publication in quality peer-reviewed academic journals, and taught at the college level for over a decade. Finally, she has a keen sense of social responsibility. She has co-founded or served social enterprises, faith-based and community organizations that seek to bolster the long-term economic productivity of at-risk youth and disadvantaged groups in Hampton Roads and Richmond. She seeks to embed the same strong sense of social responsibility within the strategic management and entrepreneurship courses she teaches, and the activities of the Centers she directs.
About Dr. Patrice Perry-Rivers
Copyright 2014 Patrice Perry
P.O. Box 5635, Williamsburg, VA 23188
P.O. Box 5635, Williamsburg, VA 23188