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(kallen@marshall.usc.edu) Kathleen R. Allen, Ph.D. is the author of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 2nd Edition; Launching New Ventures, 3rd Edition; Bringing New Technology to Market, and Growing and Managing an Entrepreneurial Business, as well as several trade books including The Complete M.B.A. for Dummies, E-Business Technology Kit for Dummies, Entrepreneurship for Dummies, and Growing and Managing a Business: The New York Times Pocket M.B.A. Series. As a professor of entrepreneurship at the Greif Entrepreneurship Center of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, Allen has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs realize their dreams to start their first ventures. Her research has focused on rapidly growing technology ventures. As the director of the USC Technology Commercialization Alliance, a collaboration of the Marshall School of Business, the School of Engineering, and the Keck School of Medicine, she is leading the effort to develop the resources and infrastructure to transfer and commercialize technology developed at the university and provide an opportunity for students and faculty to work as teams to create new technology ventures. She is also co-PI with the dean of the School of Engineering on a National Science Foundation grant to build a national technology commercialization network that will link universities to share knowledge and resources, and to collaborate across geographic boundaries to commercialize their technologies. As an entrepreneur, Allen was active in commercial real estate development for ten years, owning two businesses, and is cofounder of two technology ventures. She also a director of a NYSE company. Allen has been a consultant to companies like Microsoft Corporation on various issues related to growing entrepreneurial ventures and their use of technology as a competitive advantage. In addition to a Ph.D. with an emphasis in entrepreneurship, Allen holds an M.B.A., and a M.A. in foreign languages. |
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