I’m a Professor at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with honorary/guest professorships in Jilin University and in Nankai University. I co-founded Startup@Singapore and was a lead organizer of MIT’s 50K, now $100K, business plan competition. With a keen interest in promoting fair and sustainable business practices, I’m on the Consumer Association of Singapore CaseTrust’s Advisory Council and a faculty fellow of Nanyang Technopreneurship Center.
My research uses management concepts to understand entrepreneurial processes in high growth startups and in academic entrepreneurship. Past projects have delved into cognition, teams, and emotions and how these processes impact individual well-being, team functioning, and venture success. More recently, I am interested in leadership, in particular, how women can emerge as leaders in startups. This research has appeared in premier journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Management Science, and Strategic Management Journal.
Since 2016 I am Field Editor of the Journal of Business Venturing (2012-2017 editor of Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice (ET&P)) and on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, ET&P, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Courses taught include leadership, management, and entrepreneurship.
DISTILLING RESEARCH INSIGHTS
I regularly write commentaries and reports to disseminate research insights. These are published in newspapers and other outlets including the Business Times, TodayOnline, Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI). Selected articles:
–Channel 8 News, Jan 2020: Brief comments (from 12min 30 secs) on impact of Covid-19 on unemployment in travel and MICE sectors.
–Straits Times, Jan 2020: Comments why Fair Hiring Framework would not lead to difficulty in attracting talents.
–South Morning China Post, Oct 2019: Comments why Southeast Asia should continue to be a hotbed for startup investments.
–TodayOnline, Aug 2019: Importance of entrepreneurs to take a break to recharge, re-energize.
–Business Times, Aug 2019: Academic excellence & entrepreneurial pursuits are complementary.
–Quoted in Business Times, Sep 2019: On increasing women board representation.
–Business Times, May 2019: Promoting women leadership.
–Business Times, Apr 2019: How error management enables entrepreneurs to learn from failure.
–Human Capital Leadership Institute, Nov 2018: Unlocking the careers of Women@Work.
–Center for Creative Leadership, 2016: Queen Bee Syndrome: Why women leaders do not promote women.
BOOKS PUBLISHED
2019: Unlikely Innovation: How corporations innovate to lead their markets
2019: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, An Asian Perspective
Contact information: foomd@alum.mit.edu or mawderfoo@ntu.edu.sg