University Catalog 2025-2026

Department of Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

The MIE Department at North Carolina State University College of Management includes the college’s faculty members whose research and teaching focus on the dynamic fields of strategic management, human resource management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and the relationships between them.

Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Department
Poole College of Management
1300 Nelson Hall
Raleigh, NC 27695

Karen Jansen
Department Head

Faculty

Department Head

  • Karen Jansen, Department Head and Professor

Executive Director

  • Stephen Markham, Executive Director of NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Directors

  • Haley Huie, Director of the Entrepreneurship Clinic
  • Leigh Shamblin, Director of Leadership and Professor of Practice
  • Jessica Yinka Thomas, Director of Business Sustainability Collaborative and Associate Professor of Practice

Professors

  • Steve Barr, Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor
  • Jon Carr, Jenkins Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
  • Bradley Kirkman, General (Ret.) H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished Professor
  • Roger Mayer
  • Paul Mulvey, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
  • Jeffrey Pollack, Lynn T. Clark II Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
  • Ira Weiss
  • Tom Zagenczyk

Professor of Practice

  • Beth Ritter

Associate Professors

  • Turanay Caner
  • Elena Kulchina
  • E. Erin Powell

Assistant Professor

  • Patrick Flynn, Matthew and Soogi Hong Fellow

Teaching Assistant Professor

  • John Kuzenski

Senior Lecturer

  • Missy Makanui

Lecturers

  • Lisa Chang, Director of Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
  • Peter Janca
  • Chris Littel
  • Jenn Woodhull-Smith

Adjunct Lecturer

  • Chris Hitch