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Associate Professor, Business Administration
Office: Henniker Campus
Phone: 603.428.2438
Email: ccolbert@nec.edu

Expertise and Achievements
• Holds five marketing certifications
• Member of American Marketing Association, Network of Executive Women, and National Association of Professional Women
• Guest speaker on a variety of business and marketing topics

Educational Background
Doctor of Management, University of Maryland Global Campus
MBA, California State University, Los Angeles
BS in Marketing Management, California State University, Los Angeles

Bio
Dr. Carrie Colbert, Dr. C to her students, manages the marketing side of the Management Division. She teaches the majority of the marketing courses, including Advertising and Brand Promotions, Digital Media Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Personal Selling and Customer Relationships.

By trade, Dr. Colbert is a marketing management professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic marketing, promotion development, data analysis, and marketing management. She has held senior-level positions with Valassis Communications, Dole Food Company, Symphony IRI, and The Nielsen Company. She has also worked with many CPG manufacturers such as Nestle USA, Kraft, Mission Tortillas, and Nissin Foods, along with various grocery and drug retailers (e.g., Ahold USA, Delhaize, Winn Dixie, Rite Aid, etc.).

Dr. Colbert owns and operates Doctor Colbert Consulting, a marketing management consulting company where she helps small businesses build their customer base and increase exposure.

Professor, Business Administration; Associate Dean for Institutional Effectiveness
Office: Henniker Campus
Phone: 603.428.2214
Email: cmartin@nec.edu

Expertise and Recent Press

Expertise:
Cynthia’s recent writing and public presentations are place-based non-fiction—prompted by oral tradition or published town histories; informed by extensive primary document research; focused on decisions made by individuals; and understood within the context of broad national and regional changes in the economy, technology, political environment, and society during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Recent Press:

• New England College, Arcadia Publishing, 2016
• Vinalhaven Island’s Maritime Industries, Arcadia Publishing, 2015
• “Bodwell Granite Company Store and the Community of Vinalhaven, Maine, 1859–1919,” Maine History, 2012

Educational Background
MBA, Boston University
AB in English Literature, Smith College

Bio
Cynthia Burns Martin, Associate Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, is responsible for accreditation and assessment of New England College. She is a tenured Professor of Business Administration, with more than 30 years of fulltime teaching experience, primarily in undergraduate marketing and management, at NEC. In the past, she served as Assistant Dean of the Management Division, Chair of the Management Collegium, Chair of the Social Sciences Division, and Assistant Dean for Special Projects. She is an elected member of the Scholar Practitioner Committee of the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, which publishes the Transnational Journal of Business.

Associate Dean of Management; Associate Professor, Business Administration
Office: John Lyons Center, Henniker Campus
Phone: 603.428.2301
Email: ewilkinsonhartung@nec.edu

Educational Background

• DBA with specialization in International Business—Marketing, Alliant International University
• MBA with focus on International Business, U.S. International University
• BA in International Relations, Second Major in Business Economics, University of San Diego

Research Interests

• Social venture business models
• Livelihood development and sustainable entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bio
Erin Wilkinson Hartung is a marketing, academic, and business consultant with over 15 years of experience in higher education, global development, and small business advising. Her specialties include competitive analysis, international marketing, consumer behavior, and sustainable entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has held international teaching positions

Wilkinson Hartung has consulted with numerous small business agencies—such as the SBDC, CWE, and MBDA—assisting small businesses with market planning and training, often times bringing client projects into the classroom. She also has experience in global development championing women’s empowerment as she has worked on several NGO-sponsored international livelihood development projects.

Wilkinson Hartung is a Fulbright Scholar and spent 2012 teaching, doing research, and working on social venture marketing and sustainable entrepreneurship in Tanzania. She continues traveling to Tanzania and is active in her follow up on these entrepreneurship projects. Outside of her professional interests, Wilkinson Hartung travels widely, cooks, bikes, and kayaks. A transplant from southern California, she enjoys living in New England with her family and dogs.

Associate Professor of Business
Office: Henniker Campus
Phone: 603.428.2328
Email: mjurgens@nec.edu

Educational Background
PhD in Business, Bentley University
MBA, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
BA in Economics and Political Economy, University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests
Dr. Jurgens has studied and co-authored a book on the service design and delivery strategies of European companies and multinationals. Total Customer Satisfaction: Lessons from 50 European Companies was published by Pitman/Financial Times (Irwin in the U.S.) and has been translated into at least eight languages for sale across the world.

More recently, Dr. Jurgens has published peer-reviewed articles on the topic of sustainability and the strategies companies use to successfully (or unsuccessfully) manage relations with stakeholders. One example is her study of BP’s management of stakeholder relations during the Deepwater Horizon crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. She has also collaborated on the development of financial and managerial accounting tutorials, cases, and programs for online learning with colleagues at Harvard Business School.

Bio
Dr. Jurgens teaches sustainability, ethics, and international management in the undergraduate Management programs at NEC. She has coordinated the yearly Shark Tank competition at NEC; is an advisor to the DECA Club; and enjoys working with students to develop their interests in international travel, new businesses, and sustainable innovation.

Connected with Harvard University since 2005, she currently teaches general management, business ethics, and financial accounting to business professionals enrolled in Harvard Extension and Harvard Summer programs. She previously developed executive education programs at Harvard Business School for the leadership teams of major global corporations.

While a resident of France for nearly 20 years, Dr. Jurgens was an executive with the ACCOR Group, one of the world’s largest conglomerates in the services and hospitality industry. At ACCOR, she was part of the leadership team of Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, an ACCOR subsidiary with 25,000 people in eight European countries that she helped rescue and turn profitable. She also led the project to develop the service design and marketing identity for ACCOR’s fledging ETAP Hotel (since renamed IBIS Budget) and subsequently directed global marketing for the IBIS brand.