Richard Goulding teaches at Babson College in Technology, Innovation, & Operations Management. He is also Faculty Director of the Master's in Management & Entrepreneurial Leadership program at F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

Richard's professional background spans senior executive positions in Strategy & Development, Operations, and Private Equity Investment in public and privately held firms. He has held key operating and investment responsibilities in:

Technology

Private Equity

Consumer Packaged Goods

Advanced Building Systems

Food & Agriculture

Industrial Chemicals

Richard has also advised more than twenty firms ranging from labs & start-ups to large, multi-market enterprises, leveraging particular expertise in new venture & mid-market board governance.

Throughout his career, Richard has focused venture investment - and its implications - into critical operating domains and shifting boundaries of the firm. He has leveraged a focused, disruptive equity approach into established industry sectors such as consumer products, natural resources, and agriculture.

Richard's research areas of interest include:

Managing new venture risk

The operating model & network implications of disruptive technology

Innovation infrastructure in ancient & modern urban centers

Aligning institutional & executive interpretations of venture risk

Scaling Lean Ventures & Family Enterprise

Richard lives in Scituate, MA with his wife and five children.