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Peter H. Hackbert is currently the William and Kay Moore Chair of Entrepreneurship and Management, endowed in 1999 to Berea College by a gift from William T. Moore Jr., Berea Alumnus from the class of 1945, to provide leadership for the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good Program. Formerly Dr. Hackbert was a visiting scholar within The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, and previously to that the Harold Walter Siebens Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship at Sierra Nevada College from 2001to 2006. Prior to the appointment at Sierra Nevada College, Hackbert was a tenured professor at California State University Monterey Bay teaching marketing, e-commerce and entrepreneurship from 1996 to 2001.
As a teacher, scholar, public speaker, social and civic
entrepreneur and consultant, Dr. Hackbert is a nationally
recognized expert in entrepreneurship education. Building
upon his research and teaching interests in career pathways,
emerging growth companies in high-technology and new product/service
he contributes to the infusion of the entrepreneurial mindset
for students and entrepreneurs who may have little or no
business or management education background.
Known as an innovative teacher, Professor Hackbert has been
a pioneer in encouraging students and institutional involvement
in service-learning collaboration, creating a faculty culture
supportive of experiential learning outcomes, and strengthening
partnerships to foster community-based learning.
Dr. Hackbert has been a frequent speaker at numerous academic
and industry conferences on creativity, opportunity recognition,
value added marketing, guerrilla marketing, principle of
special events marketing, online e-learning and “live case” study procedures and entrepreneurial practices.
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