Jane Wei-Skillern

Jane Wei-Skillern is a Senior Fellow at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she has served on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School (HBS), and London Business School. She is the author and coauthor of dozens of HBS case studies, book chapters, and journal articles. A distillation of her work may be found at New Network Leader.

Wei-Skillern is the lead author of the casebook, Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector (Sage Publications, 2007). Her research on the leadership and management of social enterprises examines the topics of nonprofit growth and management of multi-site nonprofits, and most recently has been focused on nonprofit networks. This research examines how nonprofit leaders that focus less on building their own institutions and instead invest to build strategic networks beyond their organizational boundaries can achieve dramatic gains in mission impact with the same or fewer resources.

Wei-Skillern earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, a master’s degree in business research, and a doctorate in organizational behavior, both from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Education
PhD, Business/Organizational Behavior, Stanford University
MA, Business Research, Stanford University
BS, Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley
Positions Held
At Haas since 2008
2010 – present, Associate Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business
2008 – present,  Lecturer, Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2008 – 2010, Visiting Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
2001 – 2008, Assistant Professor, General Management Unit, Social Enterprise Group, Harvard Business School
2000 – 2001, Assistant Professor, London Business School
Current Research and Interests
- Social entrepreneurship - Nonprofit networks - Management of nonprofit organizations - Philanthropy

Selected Papers and Publications
- “The Networked Nonprofit,” with Sonia Marciano. Stanford Social Innovation Review (Spring 2008). - Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, with James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson. Sage Publications, 2007. - “Social Entrepreneurship and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Same, Different, or Both?” with J. Austin and Howard Stevenson. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 30, no. 1 (2006):  1-22. - “Social Entrepreneurship: It’s for Corporations, Too,” with Dutch Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco, and James E. Austin, in Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Alex Nicholls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. - “Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: A New Vision for CSR,” with James E. Austin, Dutch Leonard, and Ezequiel Reficco, in vol. 2 of The Accountable Corporation, edited by Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson. Praeger Publishing, 2005. - Case Studies: Harvard Business School Case: “World Wildlife Fund U.S,” with Kerry Herman (2008); “The Energy Foundation,” with Alison B. Wagonfeld (2008); “Habitat for Humanity Egypt,” with with Kerry Herman (2006): 9-307-001; “Guide Dogs for the Blind Association,” with Allen S.Grossman and Kristin Lieb (2003): 303-006.

Honors and Awards
- Achieving Social Impact, MBA 292N-2 - Social Entrepreneurship, MBA 292N-2