Heidi Neck

Heidi Neck is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College.  She completed her Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001.  She holds a B.S. in Marketing from Louisiana State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Her research interests include corporate entrepreneurship, radical innovation, and entrepreneurship education.  She has published numerous book chapters, research monographs, and refereed articles in such journals asJournal of Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. 

Neck is on the faculty of the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) and is the faculty director of the SEE reunion program, SEE+.  In addition, she is a co-PI on an NSF grant that has been used to develop the Babson-Olin Symposium for Engineering Educators (SyE3), which is designed to motivate engineering educators to participate in entrepreneurship education. She currently serves on the board of directors for the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship.

At Babson, she teaches new venture creation classes at the undergraduate and graduate level and has been involved in several custom education programs for companies (such as EMC, Siemens, and Intel) and universities (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Guadalajara, and InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico) . She is currently working to build an Institute for Social Entrepreneurship at the College and she is offering a new course called Social Entrepreneurship by Design. 

In 2005 Neck was awarded Babson’s “Deans’ Award for Excellence in Teaching,” a peer nominated award that reflects innovation in integrated teaching. Most recently she was award the Appel Prize presented to individuals who bring “entrepreneurial vitality to academe in the true spirit of the Price-Babson SEE program.”

Education 
B.S., Louisiana State University 
M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder 

Expertise 
Entrepreneurship
  Corporate Entrepreneurship
  Entrepreneurship
  New Venture Creation
  Social/Not for Profit