9 Great Entrepreneurs Who Turned University Professors


Leslie Charm

Areas of expertise: Entrepreneurship

Professor at:  Babson College

Classes:  Entrepreneurial Finance and Managing Growing Business

Education: B.S.B.A., Babson College

                    M.B.A., Harvard University

Leslie Charm is a forty year old partner in Youngman & Charm, a firm which specializes in assisting entrepreneurs who may be experiencing problems related to finance and operation. Students can make most use of his classes as he posses 40 years of experience being an entrepreneur and 27 years of great experience in teaching aspiring entrepreneurs. Charm also provides his experiences to universities around the world, for them to develop teaching skills required to train entrepreneurs.

Karl Baehr

Occupation: A Serial Entrepreneur

Professor at: Emerson College

Classes        : Immersive entrepreneurship course

Karl Baehr comes with 25 years of entrepreneurial experience. He started the entrepreneurial study program at Emerson College in 2004 and this course has seen its strength with more than 200 students attending the program. Baehr focuses on immersive entrepreneurship courses where students get an opportunity to learn about the process of assessing and crafting opportunity, developing a business idea and venturing on it by starting production. He is also currently working on a five year program that merges all major courses with entrepreneurship, the end result being a Master degree in entrepreneurial leadership.