Carol A. Harris is an Assistant Professor and Director of Strategic Development in the Graduate School of Management (GSM) at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In addition to teaching entrepreneurship, marketing, and organizational culture within the Masters of Arts in Management Program, she is responsible for professional development of the GSM faculty, curriculum enhancement, and faculty advising programs. She has also taught at the University of Saint Thomas and at the College of Saint Scholastica.
Harris also has experience working in the private sector, including managing consumer package goods and developing new products and new businesses for General Mills, Colgate-Palmolive, and Johnson & Johnson.
She holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College (1981) and is a candidate for an EdD at Hamline University (2009). In addition to her service on the Rainbow Research Board of Directors, she also serves on boards for the Great Plains Institute and Mind on the Media. Her other affiliations include membership in the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education.
Harris was elected to the Rainbow Board in January 2006 for a three-year term. She joined, “in support of the valuable, credible and meaningful work Rainbow does with organizations and populations underserved by traditional sources.” Harris brings to the Board skills in strategic planning, organizational culture, entrepreneurship and marketing.