Jennifer Walske

Jennifer Walske is the Faculty Director of the Master in Global Entrepreneurial Management at the University of San Francisco’s School of Management. Dr. Walske serves on the boards of both non-profit and for-profit enterprises, including the national Net Impact Board and the San Francisco Ballet Board. She is on the advisory board for Better Ventures (formerly Hub Ventures), Haas Impact Investing Network, and the Global Social Venture Competition, of which she is the former Faculty Director. She holds a doctorate in business administration from Boston University, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a B.A. from U.C. Santa Barbara. She is also a wife of Steve Walske, mother of a beautiful daughter, Savannah, and an expert skier.

External Service and Assignments

• Board of Directors, Fair Trade USA, Net Impact, San Francisco Ballet
• Advisory Board, Better VC
• Member, Academy of Management, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Divisions
• Member, Social Venture Network, Investor’s Circle, NVCA
• Member, Finance Committee, Hillary Clinton for President

Current Research and Interests

• Social Entrepreneurship
• Social Finance
• Human Capital

Selected Papers and Publications

• Scarlata, M., Walske, J., and Zacharakis, A. (Forthcoming) “Ingredients Matter: How the Human Capital of Philanthropic and Traditional Venture Capital Differs.” Journal of Business Ethics.
• Scarlata, Mariarosa, Zacharakis, Andrew, and Walske, Jennifer (2016) ‘The Effect of Founder Experience on the Performance of Philanthropic Venture Capital Firms, Journal of Business Ethics, 34(5): 618-636.
• Tyson, L. and Walske, J. (2016) “Revolution Foods: Expansion into the CPG Market.” California Management Review.
• Walske, J. and Tyson, L., (2015) “Built to Scale; A Comparative Case Analysis, Assessing Why Some Social Enterprises Scale.” International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 16 (4): 269-281.  
• Walske, J. and Tyson, L. (2015) “Fair Trade USA: Scaling for Impact.” California Management Review, 58 (1): 123-143.
• Mueller, S., D’Antino, R., Walske, J., Ehrenhard, M., Newbert, S., Robinson, J.A., Senjem, J. (2015) “What’s Holding Back Social Entrepreneurship? Removing the Impediments to Theoretical Advancement.” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 6 (3): 245-256.

Teaching

• Design, Evaluate and Scale Development Technologies
• Social Innovator Onramp
• Ethics and Socially Responsible Business
• Executive MBA, Entrepreneurship

Education

• DBA Questrom School of Business, Boston University (2004 — 2009)
• BA UC Santa Barbara
• MBA Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business

Companies

• Visiting Scholar University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2020)
• Faculty Advisor Impact Investing, Assistant Professor (Adjunct) UCLA Anderson School of Management (2018)
• Managing Director, Founder Myriad Investments, LLC (2000 — 2019)
• Social Impact Fellow, IBSI, Berkeley Haas University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2014 — 2018)
• Faculty Fellow, Blum Center for Developing Economies UC Berkeley (2016 — 2017)
• Program Director, Assistant Professor University of San Francisco (2013 — 2017)
• Faculty Director of the GSVC, Director Social Entrepreneurship, Assistant Professor (Adjunct) University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2009 — 2012)
• Doctoral Candidate, Strategy Boston University Questrom School of Business (2003 — 2009)
• Managing Director, Co-Head Internet/software, Head of West Coast Research Dain Rauscher Wessels (1999 — 2000)