Associate Dean for Graduate Programs & Innovation, CBBS

Dean Caron St. John Caron St. John

Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Innovation

Professor of Management

Contact Information

Office: 165 Sirrine Hall
Email: scaron@clemson.edu
Phone: 864.656.3177
Fax: 864.656.4468

Mailing Address

165 Sirrine Hall
College of Business and Behavioral Science
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-1301

Education

Ph.D. - Georgia State University
M.B.A. - Georgia State University
B.S. - Georgia Institute of Technology

Caron St. John joined the faculty of Clemson University in 1988. She is a full professor in the department of management and serves as the Director of the Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Dr. St. John has participated in grants receiving over $1.5 million in funding from U.S. SBA, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the National Science Foundation. She has published over 30 articles in leading scholarly journals including Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Organizational Research Methods, as well as two textbooks in strategic management. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that address the business, operations, and technology strategies of firms. During her tenure as director of the Spiro Institute, she has developed several new curriculum initiatives in entrepreneurship, planned and implemented several outreach programs that link graduate business students and experienced business executives with inventors and entrepreneurs for assistance and mentoring, created a competitive research grants program for faculty and graduate students, and raised the profile of entrepreneurship activities on campus. She has also involved the Spiro Institute in several collaborations on campus and in the state that are intended to spur economic development through technology-based entrepreneurial initiatives. She is a founding board member of the Upstate Coalition for Entrepreneurial Development, serves on the Clemson University Research Foundation board, and serves on the advisory boards of various start-up firms and seed capital funds. Before pursuing an academic career, she was a chemist with Celanese Corporation in Charlotte, NC where she was involved with new product development and new business development.