Felipe Massa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship
55 Colchester Ave
342 Ifshin Hall
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
- Boston College, M.S. and Ph.D.
BIO
Felipe G. Massa is an Associate Professor and holder of the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Organization Studies from Boston College after garnering several years of experience in the banking, software, and translation industries and completing an undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Miami. He currently teaches experiential entrepreneurship and consulting classes that give undergraduate and graduate students the tools they need to build and improve organizations. In 2022, he was named one of the Top 50 undergraduate business professors by Poets and Quants.
Dr. Massa joined the UVM faculty after an 11-year tenure at the Loyola New Orleans College of Business (2012-2023) where he founded the Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development, designed and implemented an undergraduate and graduate program in Entrepreneurship, and shepherded its acknowledgement as the 14th top Graduate Entrepreneurship Program (US News and World Report, 2022). In recognition of his contributions to Loyola, the New Orleans community, and his field he was honored as the inaugural holder of the Thomas H. and Catherine B. Kloor Professorship in Entrepreneurship and Small Business. He was also named to the Silicon Bayou 100, a list of the 100 most influential and active people in technology and entrepreneurship in Louisiana numerous times (2013-2019). As part of his commitment to the development of gulf coast communities he continues to serve as an instructor and mentor in the Idea Village’s IDEAinstitute program, a community focused pre-accelerator program that introduces innovative startups and potential startup founders to the tools they need to take their startup from an idea to a scalable business.
His research investigates the formation of innovative entities, practices, and ideas in diverse settings. He studies online communities including hacker collectives and distributed finance movements as well as entrepreneurship in cultural industries such as architecture, music, and winemaking. He is particularly interested in decentralized, non-hierarchical organizations that break with conventional ways of structuring collective action. His work has appeared in various prestigious outlets, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Journal of Business Ethics, among other leading publications. He recently published “Entrepreneurship in the Wild: A Startup Field Guide” (MIT Press, 2021), a learn-by-doing guidebook that balances practical advice with rigorous academic content. It introduces important concepts, provides highly engaging examples, and supplies the tools needed to put lessons into practice, creating a research-supported, step-by-step reference for developing, testing, and pitching any startup idea.
Bio
Felipe G. Massa is an Associate Professor and holder of the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Organization Studies from Boston College after garnering several years of experience in the banking, software, and translation industries and completing an undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Miami. He currently teaches experiential entrepreneurship and consulting classes that give undergraduate and graduate students the tools they need to build and improve organizations. In 2022, he was named one of the Top 50 undergraduate business professors by Poets and Quants.
Dr. Massa joined the UVM faculty after an 11-year tenure at the Loyola New Orleans College of Business (2012-2023) where he founded the Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development, designed and implemented an undergraduate and graduate program in Entrepreneurship, and shepherded its acknowledgement as the 14th top Graduate Entrepreneurship Program (US News and World Report, 2022). In recognition of his contributions to Loyola, the New Orleans community, and his field he was honored as the inaugural holder of the Thomas H. and Catherine B. Kloor Professorship in Entrepreneurship and Small Business. He was also named to the Silicon Bayou 100, a list of the 100 most influential and active people in technology and entrepreneurship in Louisiana numerous times (2013-2019). As part of his commitment to the development of gulf coast communities he continues to serve as an instructor and mentor in the Idea Village’s IDEAinstitute program, a community focused pre-accelerator program that introduces innovative startups and potential startup founders to the tools they need to take their startup from an idea to a scalable business.
His research investigates the formation of innovative entities, practices, and ideas in diverse settings. He studies online communities including hacker collectives and distributed finance movements as well as entrepreneurship in cultural industries such as architecture, music, and winemaking. He is particularly interested in decentralized, non-hierarchical organizations that break with conventional ways of structuring collective action. His work has appeared in various prestigious outlets, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Journal of Business Ethics, among other leading publications. He recently published “Entrepreneurship in the Wild: A Startup Field Guide” (MIT Press, 2021), a learn-by-doing guidebook that balances practical advice with rigorous academic content. It introduces important concepts, provides highly engaging examples, and supplies the tools needed to put lessons into practice, creating a research-supported, step-by-step reference for developing, testing, and pitching any startup idea.
Office Hours
Office Hours: Mondays 10:00-11:30am or by appointment.