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Jo Dee Jacob

Continuing Lecturer of Innovation, Technology, and Operations

Profile

After a distinguished 27-year naval career, Ms. Jacob served as Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts San Diego (2001-2016).  She led 120 professional staff who supported 40,000 regional Girl Scout members, managing a $10 million annual budget. San Diego HBS Alumni Association sponsored Ms Jacob to attend Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives Non-Profit Management. She was selected as LEAD San Diego’s 2015 Visionary Awards Graduate of the Year.

A former Federal Executive Fellow at American Enterprise Institute and a Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group member, she authored Beyond the Hoppo Ryodo, Soviet-Japanese and American Relations in the 1990’s.

In 2016, Ms. Jacob began teaching MGT 167: Social Entrepreneurship at Rady School of Management, and has taught it every academic year thereafter.

Education
M.A. Education, Pepperdine University
AB Art History, Stanford University

Instructional Area
Innovation, Technology, and Operations

Courses Taught
MGT 167: Social Entrepreneurship