Monika Hudson

Dr. Monika Hudson is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco and teaches entrepreneurship, family business, organizational behavior and public administration on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She directs USF’s Gellert Family Business Center, which promotes and supports family firms in the Bay Area. She is also faculty co-lead for USF’s undergraduate international business program. Dr. Hudson’s research interests include entrepreneurship, identity and behavior and the strategic implementation of the same within the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

Dr. Hudson holds a Certificate in Family Business Advising (CFBA) and an Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising (ACFBA), both from the Family Firm Institute, a global professional membership association for individuals and organizations that serve the family enterprise field. She is also a certified practitioner of the Entrepreneurship Mindset Profile (EMP™). In December 2022, she was named a Fellow of the Family Firm Institute. A 2017-18 Fulbright Scholar, she is currently conducting entrepreneurship research in Cali, Colombia; Montevideo, Uruguay and Jinan, China.

• Entrepreneurship
• Family business
• Economic development
• Organizational development

• Family business
• Entrepreneurship
• Public administration
• Organizational development

• Co-Chair, University Community Engaged Learning Committee
• Co-Chair, University Budget Advisory Committee

• University of San Francisco, Doctor of Education, 2019
• Case Western Reserve University, Doctor of Business Administration, 2007
• University of San Francisco, MBA, 2003

• Associate Professor, USF
• Assistant Professor, USF
• Director, Renaisance Entrepreneurship Center-Bayview
• City Manager, City of East Palo Alto
• Town Manager, Town of Colma

• Dr. Patricia Hill Faculty Award, 2024

• USF Mission Unity Award, 2024

• Family Firm Institute Fellow, 2022

• National Forum for Black Public Administrators, Educator of the Year, 2020

• Fulbright US Core Scholar, Cali, Colombia 2017/18

• Sultan, S., Hudson, M.L., Sultan, W. & Izhiman, N. (2024). The growth potential of Palestinian family businesses: immigrant versus home-country entrepreneurship. Review of International Business and Strategy.

• Sultan, S. & Hudson, M.L. (2024). Entrepreneurial Orientation and Palestinian family-owned businesses: does governance or geographic location make a difference? Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development.

• Hudson, M. L., Santos, J. & Casamina, C. (2024). Walk before you run: A cautionary experimental vignette methodology tale for family business researchers. In Neergaard, H. & Birdthistle, N., (eds.), Women in Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses: Methodological Insights to Advance Research, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

• Hudson, M.L. & Hunter, K.O. (2024). Bias or Poor Training? The Wine Train Incident (Case and Instructor Manual). In Levesque, L.L., (ed.), People management skills in practice: A case study collection (forthcoming November 2024); edited volume in series International Cases in Business and Management, G. Vega, & R. Edwards (Series Editors), UK: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

• Rogers, P.C. & Hudson, M. (2022). Different approaches to applied nonprofit management. In W.A. Brown and M. Hale (Eds) Preparing Leaders of Nonprofit Organizations: Contemporary Perspectives New York, NY: Routledge. 195-214. ISBN-13. 978-1032277813.