Speaker Bio

Sharon Oster, Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Program of Social Enterprise, Yale School of Management

Sharon Oster is a specialist in competitive strategy, microeconomic theory, industrial organization, the economics of regulation and antitrust and nonprofit strategy. She has written extensively on the regulation of business and competitive strategy. Professor Oster's book, Modern Competitive Analysis, which is used widely at management schools, integrates a broad range of views in its analysis of management strategy and emphasizes an economic approach to strategic planning. Her second book, Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations, applies the same economic approach to managing nonprofit organizations. Professor Oster has consulted widely to private, public and nonprofit organizations.

Mrs. Oster earned a BA from Hofstra College and a PhD from Harvard University. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband Ray Fair, a professor at the Yale School of Management. She is also the mother of Emily Oster, an economist at the University of Chicago.

The Social Enterprise Conference 2008 is presented by the Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Club and the International Development Club with the support of the Social Enterprise Program, Energy Club, Microlumbia Fund, Healthcare Industry Association and Green Business Club , and our generous sponsors.

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