Dr. Stephanie Raible is an Associate Professor of Business Administration (Entrepreneurship) at the University of Delaware’s (UD) Horn Entrepreneurship within the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Affiliated Faculty within the UD’s Biden School of Public Policy and Administration. She also serves as the Faculty Director of UD’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, which has received two national recognitions for its innovative curriculum (2023-award) and co-curricular program (2021-national finalist). In Spring 2025, she will be a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Management Center Innsbruck in Austria.

She is the co-author of the book, “Social entrepreneurship: A practice-based approach to social innovation” (with Dr. J. H. Kucher) and an editorial board member with three journals—Case Research Journal (CRJ), Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), and Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (JSBED). She is an emerging scholar in entrepreneurial identity and stereotypes, women’s entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial transitions, and social entrepreneurship, with active research pipelines in each of these areas.

Between 2022-24, her work has been recognized at the university, state, national, and international levels:

• Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware (four awarded per year among 1,200 eligible faculty);

• 40 under 40 Award (“DBT40”), Delaware Business Times (40 per year state-wide);

• Excellence in Curriculum Innovation in Entrepreneurship Award, Deshpande Symposium (one per year);

• Best Ethics Case Author (with M. Ballesteros-Sola), North American Case Research Association (one per year);

• Excellence in Social Entrepreneurship Award, International Council for Small Business (one per year); and

• Most Valuable Professor, University of Delaware-Athletics (Football).

Outside the university, she is one of eleven board members of the national association, U.S. Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE). She is an avid lifelong learner with over 1,000 professional development hours in discipline-specific and teaching-related topics, including recently finishing a graduate certificate in Socially Responsible and Sustainable Apparel Business from the University of Delaware.

In the 2024/25 AY, she will be focusing on her interdisciplinary collaborations, including a social entrepreneurship-disability studies study abroad program to Thailand, running in January 2025.

For her current CV and bio, visit her UD faculty page.

Fun fact: For the past five years, Stephanie has only shopped secondhand for clothing and accessories. She has so many fun stories about shifting to thrifting, and she hopes to find a way to share them one day.