Associate Professor
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
lashitea@mcmaster.ca
Nonresident Fellow
Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
alashitew@brookings.edu
Office: DSB Building, Room 223, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M4
My Curriculum vitae can be found HERE.
Social and Academic Network
Research Interests
- Social entrepreneurship
- Innovation studies
- Firm performance
- Business & society issues
Education
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
PhD in Economics
Thesis: “Resource Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity”
Supervisors: Professors Marcel Timmer & Robert InklaarWageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
MSc in Environmental Economics
Minor in Development Economics
Employment History
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Assistant Professor (Nov. 2021- present)
DeGroote School of Business, Strategic Management AreaBrookings Institution, Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution (Nov. 2021- present)
Research Program: Global Economy and DevelopmentAddis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Commerce (2018- present)
Teaching Duty: PhD Course in Statistical MethodsBrookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
David Rubenstein Research Fellow (Oct. 2019- Oct. 2021)
Research Program: Global Economy and DevelopmentSimon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Feb. 2018- Oct. 2019)
Research Project: Natural resources and economic developmentErasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Feb. 2015- Jan. 2018)
Research Project: Business and inclusive development in Africa
Additional Duties: Teaching support; master’s thesis supervisionUniversity of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Lecturer at Dep. of Global Economics & Management (Jan. 2014- Feb. 2015)
Courses Taught: International Business & Economics, Intermediate Research Methods, Strategy, Culture & Economics
Grants and Scholarships
Publications Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Stakeholder Capitalism and Workers’ Rights: $60,000 (2022)
AERC Research Grant: Power Outage & Firm Performance: $20,000 (2018)
PhD Project Grant: Netherlands Organization for Scienti€c Research (NWO): Euros 210,000 (2010-2014)
International Association for Research in Income and Wealth conference travel grant: $4,000 (2012)
Wageningen University M.Sc. Scholarship: Tuition waiver and monthly stipend (2006-2008)