Margaret (Meg) Joseph

Management

(o) 646-312-3664
(f) 646-312-3621

Margaret.Joseph@baruch.cuny.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Business / Department of Management - Organizational Behavior, Baruch College, City University of New York, 2010 – Present
• MBA in Marketing/Management of Information, Communications and Media, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1996
• AB in French Civilization, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1990

Research Interests

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  Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Innovation : Specifically, the impact of situational factors, choice, and experience on creative thinking and innovative behavior; the challenges of managing “disruptive innovators” while pursuing “disruptive innovation”; and the value of contextualized learning of creativity and innovation in management education.

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  Interest sparked by participation in NYU Faculty Resource Network seminar, “Critical and Creative Thinking Across the Media” (June, 2008), audit of Columbia Business School class, “Creativity in Product Innovation” (July, 2008), and attendance at 7th Annual NACCE Conference (October, 2009).

• Business Ethics and Decision-Making : In particular, the value (both perceived and actual) of using ethical decision-making models in “low stakes” situations. Interest sparked by student comments, participation in AACSB seminar, “Teaching Business Ethics” (June, 2009), and recent news articles.

Awards and Prizes

• WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, Valhalla, NY 2009 Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Gateway Center, Westchester Community College Awarded $24,000 (cash and in-kind) fellowship, funded by Skirball Foundation, to conduct research in advance of Institute’s opening in May, 2010. Research and subsequent presentations and reports focus on administrative and curricular best practices in community college entrepreneurship; current credit and non-credit student needs; and local and regional partnership opportunities.
• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY 2009 Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Awarded $2,500 curriculum development grant to devise course and create online teaching/learning materials for community college course in Import/Export Entrepreneurship.
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP (NACCE), Springfield, MA 2009 Awarded $300 Coleman Foundation Scholarship to attend 7th Annual NACCE Conference in Chicago, IL.

Teaching Experience

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  WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Valhalla, NY 2007 – 2009 Instructor (tenure-track), Department of Business Courses taught: Marketing Management (developed case study curriculum), Consumer Behavior (developed curriculum that includes field work), Marketing 101, Business Organization & Management 101

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  COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY 2008 Independent Researcher and Writer, Columbia CaseWorks Provided secondary research and writing on original MBA international marketing case and related teaching note.

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  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, San Diego, CA 1999 – 2001 Adjunct Professor, Extended Studies Developed curriculum and taught for-credit Retail Marketing course.

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  NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, San Diego, CA 1999 – 2000 Adjunct Professor, School of Business and Management Taught BA and MBA International Marketing courses. 

Presentations

• “The Science of Shopping©.” Selected as sole speaker for fall semester Junior Faculty Showcase at Westchester Community College, December, 2009.
• “Consumer Behavior & Popular Culture.” One of five presenters at Center for Faculty poster session, Westchester Community College, September, 2009.
• “Does Theory Have To Be Dull?” Breakout session lecturer at annual Effective Teaching Practices Symposium, Queensborough Community College, March, 2009.

Professional Development

• 7th Annual NACCE Conference in Chicago, IL, October, 2009. (Joined NACCE in 2009.) American Marketing Association’s (AMA) Summer Marketing Educators Conference in Chicago, IL, August, 2009. (Renewed AMA membership in 2007.)

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  AACSB “Teaching Business Ethics” Seminar in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, June, 2009. (Joined SBE in 2009.) “New Technologies for Teaching and Learning” (June, 2009) and “Critical and Creative Thinking Across the Media” (June, 2008). Week-long seminars at Faculty Resource Network, New York University, New York, NY.

• Effective Teaching Practices Symposia at Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, March, 2009, and Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, March, 2008. “Creativity in Product Innovation.” Audited six-week course at Columbia Business School, New York, NY, July, 2008.