People at BU
Alexander McKelvie ’99
McKelvie is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, one of the top-ranked universities in Entrepreneurship in the US. He earned his PhD in 2007 from Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. He has published widely in leading entrepreneurship and management journals on topics concerning new firm growth and innovation. In 2008, he received the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) best doctoral dissertation award within the field of Entrepreneurship as well as a ‘Research Promise’ Award from the Academy of Management. Alex says, “BU was a huge factor in my development. I believe that BU’s teaching philosophy on critical thinking and challenging the status quo really has helped me to ask more ‘interesting’ research questions and bring in new approaches to understanding problems”.