Stefano Rumi

Stefano Rumi is a former Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business, and a Research Fellow in the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab at the University of Southern California. His research examines questions around entrepreneurial identity, signaling, and early-stage resource acquisition. Recently, Stefano has been studying how social entrepreneurs and impact investors sustainably balance social impact and venture scaling. His research has been published in Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the DeGruyter Handbook of Social Entrepreneurship, among other outlets. He holds a BA magna cum laude in sociology from the University of Virginia, where he studied as a Jefferson Scholar.