Ross J. Gittell

Ross J. Gittell Professor of Management 603.862.3340 ross.gittell@unh.edu

Fields of Specialization:

Business, government and competition; regional and urban development; business and public policy

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University, Public Policy
M.B.A., University of California, Berkeley
A.B., University of Chicago, Economics

Ross Gittell is James R.Carter Professor at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and A.B in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Gittell is the author of two books, Renewing Cities (Princeton University Press) and Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy (with Avis Vidal, Sage Publications).He is also the author of “Making Social Capital Work: Social Capital and Community Economic Development” (with Phil Thompson) in Susan Saegert, Phil Thompson and Mark Warren (eds.) Social Capital and Poor Communities (New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2002) and“Business Development and Entrepreneurship in the Inner City,” (with Phil Thompson) in William Dickens and Ronald Ferguson (editors), Research Frontiers in Community DevelopmentNew England Economic Review, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Regional Studies, National Civic Review and Journal of Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance. (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institute, 1998) and has published in numerous academic journals including the

In 2002 Professor Gittell received the University of New Hampshire’s Excellence in Public Service award. Gittell’s research and policy activities in New Hampshire include work for the state of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Business Industry Association, the NH Charitable Foundation, the NH Small Development Center, Children’s Alliance of New Hampshire and the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy on economic development, income disparity and fiscal issues. Professor Gittell is also currently engaged as the principal investigator on a three-year sponsored research project funded by the United States Department of Commerce. The project involves an economic valuation of innovations in weather and air quality forecasts on the energy and other industries.

Professor Gittell is Vice President, forecast manager and on the board of the New England Economic Project. He is also on the board of the Exeter Trust Company and Network NH and is a member of the New Hampshire Consensus Review Estimating Committee and the New Hampshire Task Force on Philanthropy.

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