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UMass - Amherst
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Dr. James Theroux
Flavin Professor of Entrepreneurship
Isenberg School of Management
theroux@som.umass.edu
413-545-5677
Dr. Jim Theroux is the Flavin Professor of Entrepreneurship at UMass-Amherst. Before becoming a professor in 1991, Dr. Theroux had a business career in the cable TV industry that began with a large national company, Time-Warner Cable. After several years at Time-Warner he went out on his own by raising $20 million of venture capital to start a new cable company in the Cleveland Ohio area. His entrepreneurial venture utilized for the first time in America a microwave technology called “wireless cable.” The business grew to 150 employees, and was sold in 1991, just prior to Dr. Theroux’s coming to UMass. Dr. Theroux’s depth of business experience makes him unique on the UMass business school faculty.
At UMass Dr. Theroux has continued his passion for business by partnering with scientists to form new companies. He is a co-founder of two biotech companies and the co-founder of a food science company. In addition to his ongoing involvement with these companies, Dr. Theroux is an advisor to numerous businesses in the area of strategic planning.
Prof. Jim Theroux is a specialist in bringing new pedagogical techniques to business education. For his experimental work in teaching inventors he was designated one of the top ten entrepreneurship educators in America by Ernst & Young and the Kauffman Foundation. In the past year he has received three national awards for the real-time case concept, including the USASBE Award for Innovative Pedagogy.
Theroux received his MBA at Harvard University and his doctorate in educational technology at the University of Massachusetts. Theroux holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a doctorate in communications from the University of Massachusetts. |
