Dr. Sharon
L.
Poczter
Founding Director, The Senator Joseph Lieberman – Mitzner Center; Founding Director, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵɫÇéƬ Women's Initiative for Leadership and Learning (YUWILL); Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Sy Syms School of Business
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#426
Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#336
Dr. Sharon Poczter is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and former Chair of the Department (2017-2025). She is also the Founding Director for and of ³ÉÈËÊÓƵɫÇéƬ Women’s Initiative for Leadership and Learning (YUWILL), as well as faculty member of the Golda Meir Fellowship. A proven leader in academia, Dr. Poczter played a transformative role during her tenure as Department Chair, rebranding and revitalizing the department. Under her leadership, the number of student majors grew by 90%, elevating the department from the fifth to the second largest major in the business school. Her mentorship program, the Golda Meir Fellows, consistently produces the highest-achieving students in the school.
Dr. Poczter’s research examines access to financing for firms in both developed and developing economies, with a particular focus on the government's role in fostering entrepreneurship and gender disparities in company funding. Her work has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, and she is a columnist and frequent contributor to Inc., Bloomberg, Fox News, and other media outlets.
Prof. Poczter teaches Principles of Strategy, Ideation, and Research in Strategy at the Sy Syms School of Business.
Professor Poczter has won numerous teaching and research awards. She received the highest teaching award at Cornell University in her first year as a professor at Cornell, and again three years later. She also received the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Science Junior Faculty Teaching Award in 2016. She was awarded the Cornell University Class of 2001 Career Achievement Award (for career achievement, contribution to society, and contribution to Cornell). She was twice a Cornell Family Fellows Honoree. For her research, she won the 2015 Academy of Management Division Award for Interdisciplinary Research in International Business (Douglas Nigh Award), and the 2013 Institute for Social Sciences Grant, the 2012 Affinito-Stewart Grant Recipient for Junior Female Faculty at Cornell, and the 2011 Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Seed Grant. In 2012, she was a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Featured Faculty, in which she represented the College in outward facing outreach.
Professor Poczter has published widely in peer-reviewed journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Emerging Markets Trade and Finance, and Small Business Economics, among others.
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#426
Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#336