Carolyn Y. Woo, born on April 19, 1954 in Hong Kong, received B.S., MS, and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1975, 1975, and 1979 respectfully,. She worked as assistant professor (1981-85), associate professor ((1985-91), and full professor (1991-93), director of professional master's program (1993-95), and associate executive vice president for academic affairs (1995-97), Purdue University. In 1997, she joined Notre Dame to the present as the Martin J. Gillen Dean of the Mendoza College of Business and the Ray and Milann Siegfried Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies.
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Dr. Woo has received a number of research and teaching awards, including the Distinguished Scholar Award, sponsored by the International Council for Small Business (1987); the Best Paper Award (Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management, 1991, 1992); second place in the A.T. Kearney Award for Outstanding Research in General Management (1980); second place in the Competition for Best Paper Award on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (1988); and second and third places in the same competition (1991). She was elected chair of the Business and Policy Division of the Academy of Management (1988-89). For excellence in teaching, she received the Salgo-Noren Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Professional Master's Programs (1987).
Dr. Woo's specific interests include strategic management entrepreneurship, technological innovation and organizational change. She has served on editorial boards for numerous publications, including the Journal of Management, the Journal of Business Venturing and the Strategic Management Journal. She has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Advances in Strategic Management, Organizational Science, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings and Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research.
She has engaged in consulting for a number of corporate and other organizations, including Eli Lilly, General Electric, Motorola, Pratt and Whitney, and the Catholic schools of the Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana. She serves on the boards of four Fortune 1000 companies and Saint Meinrad Seminary and was elected to the Board of Governors of Beta Gamma Sigma and AACSB, the International Association for Management Education. Dr. Woo was named one of 40 Young Leaders of Academe by Change magazine, a publication of the American Association of Higher Education. She is married to David Bankus.
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