Chuck Bamford

Office: Sykes 309

Phone: 704-337-2351

Email: bamfordc@queens.edu

Dr. Chuck Bamford is an Associate Professor and the Dennis Thompson Chair of Entrepreneurial Studies at Queens University of Charlotte. He earned his A.S. at Northern Virginia Community College, a B.S. degree at the University of Virginia, an MBA at Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. in Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee. During a twelve-year span prior to attending the University of Tennessee, he held several positions managing Business Analysis (Mergers & Acquisitions, Dispositions, and Small Business Consulting) for Dominion Bankshares Corporation (now Wachovia Corporation). Other positions include Director of Corporate Training, Systems Analyst, COBOL programmer, and full time instructor in the early 1980s at Virginia Western Community College.

His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Strategies, Journal of Technology Transfer as well as the Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Chuck is the co-author of a textbook on Small Business Management entitled “Small Business Management: A Framework for Success.”

Chuck has taught courses in Strategic Management and New Venture Management at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. His teaching experience includes courses taught at Universities in Scotland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Prior to joining Queens University he held positions as an Associate Professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX and at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA. Dr. Bamford has taught numerous executive courses at Texas Christian University, Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and at Queens University of Charlotte. 

Dr. Bamford is an active consultant whose clients have included numerous small business start-ups as well as large regional and international businesses. He has won thirteen individual teaching excellence awards during his career including five Executive MBA Teacher of the Year Awards. He is a National Noble Foundation Fellow in Teaching Excellence.