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Meet the SIF Founders
Pete Bacevice
Pete
is a doctoral candidate in the Center for the
Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of
Michigan School of Education. His dissertation is on university
spin-off companies and networks of knowledge and innovation. It
is a qualitative study of a cluster of academic biotech companies in
Melbourne, Australia, and it seeks to develop a framework for
understanding the complexities of knowledge accessibility, creation,
and transfer within inter-organizational and network relationships. He
currently works with Competing
Values, an Ann
Arbor-based innovation consulting practice. Pete holds a BA in
American Studies and History as
well as an MBA, both from Case Western Reserve University.
Dan Gruber
Dan is an
Assistant Professor in the Medill IMC department and Courtesy Professor
of Management & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management
at Northwestern University. Dan’s research focuses on the
relationship between firms and the financial media and his teaching
centers on corporate communications, public relations, and managing
change in dynamic environments. His prior work experience includes Bank
of America, ABC News,
GlobalNet Financial, PNC
Financial, and General Electric. Dan holds a BBA in Finance and
International Business from Washington University in St. Louis, an MBA
and MILR (Industrial Relations) from Cornell University, and a PhD from
the University of Michigan
Lisa Guzman
Lisa is a doctoral candidate in the Center for the
Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of
Michigan School of Education. Her research and scholarly interests include the
socialization process of students into the college environment,
organizational identification with the academic institution, and the
relationship between institutional allegiance and alumni behavior. Her
prior work experience includes doing research for the RAND Corporation
and UCLA. She currently works with the Rackham School of Graduate
Studies at the University of Michigan. Lisa holds a BA in
Psychology and Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley
as well as an MA in Education from the University of Michigan.
Danielle Molina
Dani is a
doctoral candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher and
Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan School of
Education. Her research and scholarly interests include
organizational adaptation to administrative IT-related change in
colleges and universities, postmodern environmental change, and
sensemaking. Her prior work experience includes residence life,
career placement, and graduate student service positions at Heidelberg
College, Vassar College, and the University of Michigan. Dani
holds a BA in Geological Sciences from Northwestern University as well
as an MA in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State
University.
Ryan Smerek
Ryan is an independent scholar and a research associate with Ann
Arbor-based Denison Consulting. His research interests are
centered around the areas of
organizational culture and organizational identity as well as practical
issues in the college presidency and university governance. He
previously worked for the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University. Ryan
holds a PhD in Education, with a concentration in organizational
behavior and management, from the University of Michigan. He also
holds a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College and an EdM in Leadership
Development and College Administration from Harvard University.
Jude Yew
Jude is a
doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information.
His research interests include technology-mediated and
collaborative learning, creativity and technology, and social and
organizational impact in the use of technologies. He is secretary
of Michigan Ohio Computer-Human Interaction and is a member of the
Association for Computer Machinery's Special Interest Group on
Computer-Human Interaction. Jude holds a Diploma in Education
from the National Institute of Education in Singapore, a BA (Hons) in
English Literature from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore,
and an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of
Michigan.
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