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Now in semi-retirement, Wendell Dunn joined the University of Auckland Business School in 2003. He is the inaugural holder of the privately sponsored, faculty-wide Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship, the first of its kind in New Zealand.
Prior to arriving in New Zealand, he served from 1996 as Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of The University of Virginia, USA. At Darden he was founding director of the Batten Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Previously, he served as Academic Director at the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center in the Wharton School, USA, following earlier appointments in Strategy at The University of Pennsylvania, the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and The University of Michigan.
Wendell has taught Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, and/or Venture Development, primarily at the postgraduate and executive levels, for nearly 30 years. In addition, he has held adjunct faculty appointments in both Fine and Performing Arts Management (Columbia University) and Emergency Medicine (George Washington University). His current professional interests include research commercialisation, technical entrepreneurship and venture initiation, SME firm growth, and national economic development.
Beyond academics, Wendell has some 20 years' operating experience in electronics, mining and mineral processing, investments, management consulting, and healthcare delivery. He has served as a governing or advisory board member to numerous commercial, intellectual property and economic development organisations, including several years as an executive member of the University of Virginia Patent Foundation board of directors.
In addition to academic journal editorial boards, he is or has been a member of multiple international professional organisations and societies, a staffmember at the United States Senate, and a senior consultant to New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development. In 2005 he was appointed by then-Prime Minister Helen Clark to her government's Growth and Innovation Advisory Board, which advised the Cabinet.
Wendell has served the Business School as both founding Head of the Graduate School of Enterprise and as Associate Dean for Academic Development. Recognised internationally for expertise in curriculum development, he has lectured in a variety of nations and contexts and, in 2004, successfully co-presented to government the case for Auckland's recently completed Institute for Innovation in Biotechnology. He is a principal architect of both The Auckland MBA™ and the University's internationally recognised multi-faculty programmes in Bioscience Enterprise, in which he has taught Research Commercialisation for the last five years.