Overview

Pegram Harrison is a Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the School and a member of Exeter College, Oxford.

He teaches entrepreneurship (pre-start-up, opportunity recognition and business planning) and leadership (especially in entrepreneurial contexts). He has also taught literature and history at New York University and Birkbeck College in the University of London.

Most recently, he was Director of the Emerging Leaders Programme at the London Business School.  Prior to this he taught entrepreneurship and strategy at the European Business School London, where he also ran various MA programmes and directed an entrepreneurship research unit.

Pegram has worked as a strategy consultant in New York; and as an entrepreneur, developing several UK start-ups in television and organic food. He holds a BA in Literature from Yale (1989), a PhD in English Literature and Indian History from the University of Cambridge (1997); and an MBA from London Business School (2000).

Research interests

Pegram Harrison's research and teaching concern entrepreneurship, especially in South Asia and in Islamic societies. He also works on the intersection of business and social issues on projects relating to business education (especially for women entrepreneurs) and conservation as an engine for development.

Book chapters:

"Behind the Veil: Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan" (2008) with Muhammad Roomi, in The Dialogue of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Social Capital, eds. Iiris Aaltio, Elisabeth Sundin, and Paula Kÿro, Copenhagen Business School Press.

"CSR: An Information Strategy" (2005) Perspectives on International Corporate Responsibility, International Corporate Responsibility Series, vol. 2, ed. John Hooker, Ans Kolk, Peter Madsen, Philosophy Documentation Center

Journal articles:

"Training Needs for Women-Owned SMEs in England" (2008), with Muhammad Roomi, Education+Training, 50: 8/9, pp 687-696.

Review (2008) of T. Metcalf Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 in Enterprise and Society, 8:3, pp 537-539

Review (2006) of G. Knaap and H. Sutherland Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in 18th C Madagascar in Enterprise and Society, 6:4, pp 821-822.

Working papers:

"Women-owned SMEs in the east of England: analysis of factors influencing the growth process".

"Entrepreneurial Leadership: a gap in the literature and an opportunity in education".

"Islamic Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan".

"Women-only MBA programmes".

"Entrepreneurship Education in Europe: current and emerging research", for Université Paris-Dauphine entrepreneurship research group.