Charitable Giving and Philanthropy

Charles Harvey is a Visiting Professor at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship. Formerly Dean of the Strathclyde Business School, Professor Harvey took up position of Pro Vice-Chancellor for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle from May 2008.

Professor Harvey is author of numerous books and articles in the fields of strategy, leadership and management. He is the co-author, with Sydney Finkelstein and Thomas Lawton, of Breakout Strategy (McGraw-Hill, 2007), which presents a complete strategy system based on the experiences of more than 100 of the worlds most successful breakout companies. In 2006 he published, with Mairi Maclean and Jon Press, Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK (Palgrave Macmillan), a path-breaking study of the exercise of power within two very different national business systems. Recent publications include contributions to the Journal of Business Strategy, the Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Organization Studies, Business History, and the Economic History Review.

Previously Charles served as Director of Royal Holloway School of Management, University and as Dean of Bristol Business School and has sat on the Research Grants Board of ESRC between. He has served on the boards of several private sector companies and charitable foundations. He is a partner in Bristol Academic Press and was Chairman of Central Middlesex NHS Trust between 1994 and 1999, leading the team that created the UKs first custom designed Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre (ACAD) - a beacon site for the UK National Health Service. He has been involved in management development at IBM, JP Morgan Asset Management, Bombardier Transportation and J Sainsbury. charles.harvey@ncl.ac.uk

Dr Eleanor Shaw is Reader and Director of the Honours Marketing Programme at the University of Strathclyde. She was Director of the Master's in Entrepreneurship for two years in Durham Business School. Eleanor’s research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship and marketing. She specializes in the areas of networks, social capital, gender, creative industry small firms, social enterprises and venture philanthropy. Eleanor was a key contributor to an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded project exploring the relationship and dynamics between bank lending officers and small business owners.

Her research has been supported by a range of organisations including the ESRC, Barclays Bank, the Industrial Society, the Institute of Small Business Advisers, the DTI, the Small Business Service (SBS), the School for Social Entrepreneurs, The Big Issue in Scotland, Scottish Enterprise and Social Investment Scotland. Eleanor’s research has been published in leading academic journals (Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, British Journal of Management, International Small Business Journal) and reports include an Industrial Society policy paper, Unequal Entrepreneurs: Why Female Enterprise is an Uphill Business with a foreword by Will Hutton and a DTI Small Business Service Research Report, Women’s Business Ownership: Recent Research and Policy Developments with a foreword by Margaret Hodge. Eleanor sits on the editorial boards of International Small Business Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research and the International Journal of Marketing and Entrepreneurship Research.  She is a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM) and sits on the advisory board of the BAM Special Interest Group in Entrepreneurship. eleanor.shaw@strath.ac.uk

Jillian Gordon is a Lecturer at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship where she teaches Social and Community Entrepreneurship to undergraduate students. Previously, Jillian coordinated and delivered two undergraduate experiential learning programmes working closely with the entrepreneurial community throughout the central belt of Scotland delivering consultancy projects on business development and growth issues. Jillian’s research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship and philanthropy and focus specifically on the areas of networks, social capital, social enterprises and entrepreneurial philanthropy.

Jillian is in the final stages of her PhD titled: Power, Wealth and Entrepreneurial Philanthropy in the New Global Economy. Jillian has undertaken a case study research strategy of five prominent entrepreneurial philanthropists and their vehicles of philanthropy in the UK to explore the motivation, mean, mode and magnitude of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy.
Jillian is a member of the British Academy of Management. jillian.gordon@strath.ac.uk

Kay Henderson was formerly a Lecturer and Director of post-graduate study at the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde and has held academic positions at the University of Stirling and Robert Gordon’s University in the area of Information Management, Publishing and Information Systems. Kay's research is part of the The Entrepreneurial Philanthropy Research Group.