Jaume Villanueva
Assistant Professor of Management
Jaume Villanueva (PhD candidate, University of Minnesota) is an Acting Assistant Professor of Management at Santa Clara University whose research focuses on the creation and development of new ventures. His research examines how social and interpersonal processes, such as power, communication and impression formation affect entrepreneurial outcomes. He is currently studying how entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to potential investors and how patterns of power-dependence with external resource providers affect new ventures’ resource acquisition strategies. Professor Villanueva’s research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing,Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and has been presented at the Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference and at the Academy of Management.
Professor Villanueva holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in International Economics from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Before returning to academia, Jaume worked in international business development for Nobel Biocare, Archer Daniels Midland and Illinois Tool Works, in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He also has entrepreneurial experience as the co-founder of Fluent Systems, a Wisconsin precision agriculture company that developed a new technology for the application of fertilizer, and is the recipient of multiple entrepreneurship awards. In his free time, he enjoys learning languages and playing soccer.
September 2011
