DSEF’s academic partnerships serve to inform and educate students – highlighting direct selling as a go-to-market strategy and pathway to entrepreneurship and micro-entrepreneurship. DSEF has partnered with more than 75 professors over the past year, and is making significant process toward mainstreaming the channel on college campuses across the country.
DSEF will continue creating partnerships within the academic community by reaching 200 DSEF Fellows by 2019 and expanding student reach to promote deeper knowledge of direct selling as a legitimate channel of distribution and path to entrepreneurship. We are excited to welcome our newest Fellows:
Dr. Mark Bergen
Associate Dean, James D. Watkins Chair in Marketing
University of Minnesota
Dr. Nawar N. Chaker
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Elon University
Dr. Angeline Close Scheinbaum
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Honghui Deng
Professor of Business Administration, IC2 Fellow
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dr. Ramarao Desuraju
Professor of Marketing
University of Central Florida
Mary Hunt (PhD candidate)
Assistant Professor of Business & Psychology, Internship Coordinator
Ave Maria University
Dr. Kacy Kim
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Elon University
Dr. Annie Liu
Associate Professor of Marketing
Texas State University
Dr. James Lynch
Associate Professor of Management and Law
Brooklyn College
Dr. Ronald Michaels
Professor of Marketing
University of Central Florida
U. N. Umesh
Professor of Marketing
Washington State University Vancouver