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Management and International Business
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Wendell Dunn joined the Business School in 2003 and holds the privately sponsored, faculty-wide Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship - the first of its kind in New Zealand.
Prior to joining The University of Auckland 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 (now the Batten Institute). Previously, he was Academic Director at the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center in the Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Wendell has taught Management, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Development at the (post-)graduate and executive levels for over twenty-five years and has held adjunct faculty appointments in both Fine & Performing Arts (Columbia University) and Emergency Medicine (The George Washington University). His current professional interests include research commercialisation, venture initiation, SME firm growth, and 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 management, and economic development organisations, including several years as an Executive Committee member of the University of Virginia Patent Foundation board.
In addition to academic journal editorial boards, he is a member of several international professional organisations and societies and has been a senior consultant to New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development. In 2005 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to the government's Growth and Innovation Advisory Board.
Wendell has served previously as Head of the GSE and Associate Dean for Academic Development. Recognised internationally for expertise in curriculum development, he has lectured in several countries and is an architect of both The Auckland MBA™ and the inter-faculty Master of Bioscience Enterprise.