Business School
Named chairs
The Business School has in place Named Chairs who have strong links with industry and who work to build on existing disciplinary strengths and expand into new areas of development.
As well as providing outstanding academic and intellectual leadership, named Chair-holders are intimately involved with the development of the research agenda, curriculum, course design and teaching programmes. They unite leading-edge research and teaching in cross-disciplinary areas, and are involved in building strong working relationships with the public sector and business communities.
Professor Wendell Dunn III, from Darden in the US state of Virginia, is New Zealand's first university chair in entrepreneurship. An expert on venturing and entrepreneurship education and former adviser to the Cabinet and the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, Professor Dunn strengthens the School's entrepreneurship curriculum. He was recently instrumental in the establishment of our Masters in Bioscience Enterprise.
The Business School's Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership, Professor Brad Jackson, is an international authority on leadership. Professor Jackson previously led the Centre for the Study of Leadership at Victoria University in Wellington and has held Associate Professorships at both the Copenhagen Business School, in Denmark, and the University of Calgary in Canada.
As the Business School's Ernst & Young Chair in Financial Accounting, Professor David Emanuel is working with Ernst & Young to provide them with access to academic research. Professor Emanuel has acted as a consultant to the New Zealand Treasury, local authorities and numerous commercial organisations. Serving on standards-setting committees of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, David was active in the design and management of the Institute's admissions programme.
Professor Basil Sharp, the Energy Education Trust Chair in Energy and Resource Economics, is internationally-recognised for his work in fisheries economics and management, the management, allocation and governance of water rights, and contemporary energy and resource issues. Given the applied nature and relevance of his work to public policy, he has a continuing involvement with industry, iwi and government agencies. Professor Sharp is also Head of the Department of Economics and Director of the Energy Centre, which is funded by the Energy Education Trust of New Zealand.
The Ports of Auckland Chair in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Professor Tava Olsen, was previously Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management at the Olin Business School at Washington University in the United States. A widely published researcher, she is also Academic Director of the New Zealand Centre for Supply Chain Management.
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