Donna Kelley

Donna Kelley is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and holds the Frederic C. Hamilton Chair of Free Enterprise. She teaches courses at Babson in entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in Asia. In addition, she has made speeches for executives and taught for top universities in China and Korea. Kelley has conducted research on innovation in startups and established corporations in the U.S. and Korea and on entrepreneurship education in China. Her research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Human Resource Management, and others.

Donna received her Ph.D. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her early career involved work as a chemist in the graphics and industrial and consumer cleaning products industries. Her entrepreneurship experience includes businesses in the health and fitness, computer hardware, and education fields. She is on the board of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA), the oversight board of the GEM project and leader of the GEM U.S. team. She co-authored the 2008 GEM Korea Report, the 2008 GEM Education and Training Report, the 2010 and 2011 GEM Global Reports, and the 2010 GEM Global Women’s Report.