Richard Robinson - tel. 803.777.5961
fax.
803.777.9123
robinson@sc.edu
Dean Kress - tel. 803.777.7015
fax. 803.777.9123
kress@sc.edu
Dr. Richard
Robinson - Richard B. Robinson teaches
Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, and coordinates a small company field
projects class at The Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina,
where he is a Business Partnership Foundation Fellow and Professor of
Management.
Dr. Robinson has
co-authored 16 books and authored or co-authored over 150 refereed journal
articles, research presentations, and business case studies used by students,
teachers, and managers.
Richard Robinson
graduated from Georgia Tech as a co-op student in 1969; he earned an MBA at the
University of Georgia in 1972. Richard then worked
in a closely held company assisting in the management of three Holiday Inns,
where he also helped start one successful restaurant chain and failed with
another. He then entered UGA's Ph.D. program. He moved to
Columbia in 1980. Richard has served as co-owner
& president of a hazardous waste management company that was sold to
Laidlaw Environmental in 1992. He now serves on Palmetto Seed Capital Fund's
investment advisory committee.
Dean Kress - Dean H. Kress serves
as Associate Director of the Faber Entrepreneurship Center. He graduated from
Clemson University, then started his own retail
business. After three years, he joined Gate Petroleum Co. of
Jacksonville, FL, serving, at
various times, as Racquet Club Manager,
Real Estate and Credit Manager, Training Supervisor, and Area Supervisor. After
earning an MBA, he came to the University of South Carolina as Senior
Consultant and then Area Manager of the Small Business Development Center. He has served as a consultant to more
than 100 small businesses in South
Carolina. He has served as a strategic
advisor and financial analyst with several South
Carolina
entrepreneurs and other organizations that attempt to work with them. He has been a judge
in the Small Business Person of the Year competition sponsored by
the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce for five years. He presently
teaches the Master's level Entrepreneurship Praticum course at the Moore School of
Business and also coordinates all center activities.
