Deborah Streeter is the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business
Management in the Department of Applied Econom...
Deborah Streeter is the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business
Management in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell. Entrepreneurship and
small business management are the focus of Streeter's teaching, research, and outreach activities.
She specializes in teaching business planning, decision analysis, and small business management.
Streeter was awarded the 2001 CALS National Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in College and
University Teaching, and was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in 2000. She also received
the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000 and the Innovative Teaching Award in
1996.
Streeter's research interests include: models of entrepreneurship education, the role of
entrepreneurship and small business in economic development with special focus on information
technology and market coordination, evaluation of collaborative approaches to small business
training, and the relationship between scientific R&D and market research/strategy and the
effectiveness of business training and planning for start-ups. As director of the Entrepreneurship
Education and Outreach Program (EEO), she contributes to the extension functions of the college
through programs related to business planning for agricultural and food-related enterprises.
The e-Clips collection represents a major project of Streeter's -- the development of educational
materials built on a database of digital video interviews with entrepreneurs from across the country.
The video material is cut into clips by topic and used in a multi-media format to teach
entrepreneurship and small business management. Streeter holds a M.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1984) in
agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She is a member of a university wide
program in entrepreneurship, the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program (EPE).
(From eClips Website)