Edward Benjamin Shils
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American academic
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Sociology
Edward Benjamin Shils's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Why Is Edward Benjamin Shils Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Benjamin Shils was a noted and innovative management professor, who received six degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an institution at which he taught for over five decades. Shils most significant contribution to Penn was the 1973 founding of the Wharton Entrepreneurial Center, renamed in 1985 to the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center, at Penn's Wharton School of Business. While entrepreneurship is widely accepted as an academic discipline today, the Center was the first of its kind in the world. Shils served as the Center's director until 1986.
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