Center for Global Entrepreneurship — College of Business
Information about the Center
Mission
To improve the prospect for growth-oriented, globally competitive entrepreneurship in emerging and transitional markets through practice-oriented graduate management education.
Objectives
- Design and offer master’s level credit courses in emerging markets entrepreneurship.
- Provide a graduate certificate, M.B.A. concentration, and master’s degree in emerging markets entrepreneurship.
- Organize and conduct non-credit executive education courses in various aspects of emerging markets entrepreneurship.
- Advise developmental finance institutions, governments and others on how to better develop entrepreneurship in developing countries.
- Conduct the applied research necessary to realize the above objectives, including case studies.
Leadership
Dr. Lynda Y. de la Viña is the executive director of the Center for Global Entrepreneurship. De la Viña was named dean and Peter Flawn Professor of Economics at the UTSA College of Business in 2005. De la Viña previously served as associate dean of the Graduate Division of Business and Management and chair of the Department of Finance and International Business at Johns Hopkins University.
In 1998, she was a presidential appointee to the U.S. Department of Treasury and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy until 2001. Although her work portfolio was expansive dealing with domestic and international economic policy issues, she led Treasury teams on issues of personal commitment such as financial literacy, entrepreneurship development and U.S.-Mexico border development.
De la Viña co-founded two companies --Nightwave Records in Los Angeles, CA and Operational Technologies Corporation (OpTech) in San Antonio, TX. Under her tenure, OpTech rose from a small incubator operation in downtown San Antonio to one of the largest minority-owned businesses in San Antonio. OpTech specializes world-wide in information systems, secure communications and biotechnology with operations in Mexico and the U.S. She continues to serve on the Board of Directors of OpTech.
De la Viña received her master’s and doctorate in economics from Rice University and her bachelor’s in government and economics from UT-Pan American. She was the first Mexican-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States and the first Mexican-American woman at the secretarial level of The U.S. Treasury.
About UTSA
Located adjacent to the large and diverse emerging market of Latin America, San Antonio is a vibrant multicultural city and home to a successful and diverse entrepreneurial community. UTSA is the most rapidly growing component of the University of Texas System and has recently launched an initiative to become one of the top 100 public universities in the United States. UTSA’s College of Business has over 6,000 students from 10 countries and more than 90 full-time faculty. The college is accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and has recently launched Ph.D. programs in several business disciplines.
Contact
Dr. Lynda de la Viña, Dean
Executive Director
Center for Global Entrepreneurship
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
(210) 458-4313
College of Business — The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle — San Antonio, TX 78249-0631— (210) 458-4313 FAX (210) 458-4308 •
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