Ross J. Gittell
Professor of Management
Whittemore School of Business and Economics
University of New Hampshire

Professor Gittell's areas of expertise and research include business and government relations and state and local economic development. Prior to joining the Whittemore School, Professor Gittell taught at Harvard University where he was also a research fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Center for Business and Government and for the Harvard Institute for International Development, and the New School for Social Research where he was also senior associate at the Community Development Research Center. He received his Ph.D. (Public Policy) from Harvard University, M.B.A. from University of California at Berkeley, and A.B (Economics) from the University of Chicago. Professor Gittell is the author of two books, Renewing Cities (Princeton University Press, 1993) and Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy (with Avis Vidal, Sage Publications, 1998) and "Inner City Business Development and Entrepreneurship: New Frontiers for Policy and Research," (with Phil Thompson) in Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens (eds.), The Future of Community Development: A Social Science Synthesis (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institute Press, 1998). He has also published in numerous academic journals including, the Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Regional Studies, National Civic Review, Journal of Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance and New England Economic Review.


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