Simmons College

Ann Cullen has been teaching and supporting business information research for almost 20 years. Currently as a Curriculum Services Specialist, Ann works directly with faculty in Harvard Business School's MBA program to incorporate an understanding and use of business research resources into the course curriculum. This position builds on Ann's previous experience and knowledge of HBS in her role for four years as Baker's Financial Librarian. Ann has worked in both the private and public sector as an educator, researcher and information professional. As a professional researcher and information professional previous positions were with Columbia University, Credit Suisse First Boston, Chase Manhattan Bank, the American Management Association, Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs. In almost all of these positions training was an important component of her job. Ann has also worked as a professional trainer at Ericsson Telecommunications in Rome, Italy and for the British Embassy at the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In addition to her full-time job, she has been an Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute's Graduate School of Information and Library Science and is currently teaching a course in Business Research at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She has also offered continuing education workshops on Private Equity Research.

Ann Cullen has a B.A. in Art History and Economics from New York University, an MLS from Columbia University and a Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Cambridge University's Royal Society of Arts.

An active member in the Special Libraries Association (SLA), she formerly was on the Executive Board of the Business & Finance Division and received the Division's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship in June 2007. She regularly gives presentations on business information research at conferences and at HBS. Of her recent publications she has co-authored several case notes on information research with HBS faculty and co-authored a book with Sylvia James on Private Equity Research. She also is currently matriculated in the Ph.D. program in Library and Information Science at Simmons College.

Her research interests include: Businesspeople and managers' use of information and their information behavior; how research supports entrepreneurship and innovation; the role of libraries and information services in providing spaces that nurture reflective thought and the generation of new ideas; customer service; embedded librarianship; information literacy; business research; reference librarianship; research instruction and service leadership.

Lecturer in LIS 430 - Business Information Sources and Services.

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