Howard E. Aldrich

Current

• Kenan Professor & Department Chair at University of North Carolina, Department of Sociology
• Adjunct Professor of Management at Kenan-Flagler Business School

Past

• Advisory Board Member at eePulse, Inc.
• Advisory Board Member at OpenMind Publishing Group, Inc.
• Advisory Board Member at StartupStreet.com

• Advisory Board Member at Eco-Marketing
• Professor at Cornell University

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Education

• University of Michigan
• Bowling Green State University

Connections

25 connections

Industry

Education Management

Websites

• My Website

Howard E. Aldrich’s Experience

• Kenan Professor & Department Chair

  University of North Carolina, Department of Sociology

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)

  July 1982 — Present (25 years 11 months)

  Responsible for leading a department of 24 professors, 7 staff, & a quarterly journal, with 85 graduate students & approximately 400 undergraduate majors.

• Adjunct Professor of Management

  Kenan-Flagler Business School

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 1982 — Present (26 years)

• Advisory Board Member

  eePulse, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2000 — December 2007 (7 years 2 months)

  eePulse delivers technology & research consulting services that support effective human resource management.

• Advisory Board Member

  OpenMind Publishing Group, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  June 2001 — May 2002 (1 year)

  Attempted to bring textbook publishing to the web by incorporating an open source model. Offered professors the ability to create personalized textbooks & integrated teaching aids for free. Although this venture failed, Lulu Publishing arose from its ashes (I am not associated with Lulu Publishing).

• Advisory Board Member

  StartupStreet.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

  September 2000 — April 2001 (8 months)

  Venture was formed to provide a wide range of business services to startups, from financing to marketing to management. It was the right idea at the wrong time, perhaps. It did not survive.

• Advisory Board Member

  Eco-Marketing

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)

  January 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 3 months)

  Firm was founded to sell fine jewelry over the Internet, but when that model failed, switched to trade shows. That model failed, too!

• Professor

  Cornell University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  July 1969 — June 1982 (13 years)

  Joint appointment in Industrial & Labor Relations, Sociology, and the School of Business.

Howard E. Aldrich’s Education

• University of Michigan

  PhD, Sociology, 1965 — 1969

• Bowling Green State University

  BA, Sociology & Psychology, 1961 — 1965

  Activities and Societies:

  Vice President of the Student Body, Judge on the Student Court, Treasurer of the Inter-fraternity Council, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Assistant Photo Editor on the yearbook

Additional Information

Howard E. Aldrich’s Websites:

• My Website

Howard E. Aldrich’s Groups:

Academy of Management, American Sociological Association

Howard E. Aldrich’s Honors:

Academy of Management Best Book Published in Management Award (in 2000)

Howard E. Aldrich’s Contact Settings

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