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Office
307 Tate Center
Address
5 Liberty Street
Suite 300
Charleston, SC 29401
Tel: (843) 953-6446
Fax: (843) 953-5697
desplacesd@cofc.edu
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David E. Desplaces
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Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Ph.D. University of Rhode Island
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David E. Desplaces is the Director of the International Business Major and an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the School of Business and Economics. He joined the College of Charleston in the summer of 2007 from the University of Hartford where he founded the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development and directed student community-based consulting projects in cooperation with the Connecticut Economic Gardening Group.
Education:BS Management (with Honors), Bentley College; MBA with a concentration in Finance, Bentley College; MS Education, Syracuse University; Ph.D. Business Administration, University of Rhode Island
Research Interests and Working Papers
- Regional economic development
- Spatial allocation of funding for new ventures
- Business ethics education
- Change management
Selected Scholarship
Desplaces, D.E., Beauvais, L. L., Melchar, D. E. & Bosco, S. M. (2007). The Impact of Business Education on Moral Judgment Competence: An Empirical Study. Journal of Business Ethics. 74 (1): 73-87.
Desplaces, D.E., Congden, S.W. & Boothe, P. (2007). The group creativity exercise: Getting MBA’s to Work and Think Effectively in Groups. Organization Management Journal. 4 (1): 69-86.
Desplaces, D.E., Steinberg, M., Coleman, S. & Kenwordy-Unn, A. (November 2006). A Human Capital Model for Inner City Economic Development: Service-Learning and the Upper Albany Micro Business Incubator (MBI) Program. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. 13 (1).
Steinberg, M., Kenwordy-Unn, A., Desplaces, D.E., Coleman, S. & Golden, R. (2006) The Upper Albany Micro Business Incubator: Service Learning in Real Time. International Journal of Case Method Research and Application. 18 (2): 200-208.
Recent Achievements and Honors
- Lead College of Charleston SIFE team to national second runner up win in 2008
- 2006 Barney School Service Excellence Award
- 40 Greater Hartford business leaders under 40 years old who have succeeded in business and given back to the community
Professional Activities: Currently serving as the Program Chair of the CASE Association after serving as the membership Chair for two years. Recently, he served as the Local Arrangements Chair for the Eastern Academy of Management including coordinating fund raising and registration.
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