Rate My Professor Dan Wadhwani

Wadhwani’s research focuses on historical approaches to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial processes driving socio-economic change, business history, and the uses of history in organization studies. He has co-edited books including Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (Oxford University Press, 2014), Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (Edward Elgar, 2007), and special issues in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2020) and Organization Studies (2018). Key publications feature articles such as “Theorizing with Microhistory” (with Andrew Hargadon, Academy of Management Review, conditionally accepted), “Geopolitical Jockeying: Economic Nationalism and Multinational Strategy in Historical Perspective” (with Christina Lubinski, Strategic Management Journal, 2020), “Social Imaginaries of Entrepreneurship Education” (with Christoph Viebig, Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2021), and “History as Organizing” (Organization Studies, 2018). His contributions have earned the Williamson Midcareer Award for Leading Contributions to Business History (Business History Conference, 2020), Henrietta Larson Award for best article in Business History Review (2011), and multiple teaching awards, including the Derek Bok Center Award at Harvard (2003, 2004) and Annual MBA Teaching Awards at Pacific (2007–2009, 2011–2012). Wadhwani previously chaired the Academy of Management Management History Division and is president-elect of the Business History Conference. At USC, he developed courses like BAEP 455: Founder’s Dilemmas and BAEP 477: Entrepreneurial Imagination, directed research and graduate programs, and mentored founders through accelerator initiatives.