Shelley Mitchell

Shelley Mitchell, Professor of Management and Sustainability teaches Corporate Social Responsibility and Responsible Management at Hult International Business School and is a faculty advisor to the Net Impact Chapter at the Boston campus. With extensive work experience in the nonprofit, for-profit, government and International NGO sectors she brings a diverse practitioner background to her teaching and research. Previously held positions include Director of Major Gifts & Planned Giving at New Hampshire Public Television, Founding member at an Internet start-up company, Director of Corporate & Foundation Support at the UNH Foundation, Executive Director of the Seacoast Land Trust, Director of Education at the Indianapolis Zoo and Environmental Education Specialist with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. She holds certificates in fundraising management and professional coaching.

For the last eight years Dr. Mitchell has taught at the University of New Hampshire, Paul College of Business & Economics in the Management Department. She is a past Course Coordinator for Admn 400: Intro to Business, the largest course on campus with 800+ students and teaches Business, Government & Society. She taught at the IUPUI School of Education in Indianapolis, Indiana. She co-chairs professional development workshops at the Academy of Management conferences and she has been a keynote speaker at meetings for her insights into how small to mid-sized enterprises use innovation for ecological sustainability and how corporate environmental/social responsibility contributes to sustainability.

Shelley Mitchell participated in the 2010 oikos Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy in Switzerland, as one of fifteen Ph.D. students from ten countries who presented their research on the role of institutions, entrepreneurship and organizational change for a reorientation towards achieving environmental, social and economic sustainability. She was actively involved in establishing the Oyster River Cooperative School District’s Sustainability Committee and oversees its Internship program in Durham, NH. She is co-editor of the Handbook on Sustainability in Management Education published June 2017 with Edward Elgar Publishers.