Dr. Patricia Greene
Biography
Patricia G. Greene is professor emeritus at Babson College, COO of Tilted Windmill Games, and educational advisor to Portfolia, LLC.
From 2017-2019 Greene served as the 18th director of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor. Prior to her term in Washington, D.C., she held the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College where she formerly served as provost and dean of the undergraduate school. Her earlier work included holding the Ewing Marion Kauffman/Missouri Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and the New Jersey Chair of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers University. Greene earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from UNLV, and a B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University.
Greene was the founding national academic director for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, leading the Babson College team to design, develop and deploy the program’s curriculum, train the teams from the participating community colleges across the U.S. and manage the quality control system. She additionally served as the global academic director for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative.
Greene’s research focuses on the identification, acquisition, and combination of entrepreneurial resources, particularly by women and minority entrepreneurs. She is a founding member of the Diana Project, a research group focusing on women and the venture capital industry and a recipient of the SFS-NUTEK Award, given to recognize those who produce scientific work of outstanding quality and importance related to entrepreneurship. She has also written on entrepreneurship education, including the edited volumes Entrepreneurship Education (with M. Rice) and The Development of University-Based Entrepreneurship Ecosystems: Global Practices (with M. Fetters, M. Rice and J. Butler). She is the co-editor of Teaching Entrepreneurship: A Practice-Based Approach (with H. Neck and C. Brush), the top-selling entrepreneurship teaching book in the world with volume two released April 2021.
“My professional passion is to build educational programs that help people realize their entrepreneurial goals. I’ve now taught entrepreneurship on every continent except Antarctica and I love seeing what people do with what they learn.”