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Myrto Chliova
Assistant Professor, Yrittäjyys
Person profile
Dr. Chliova has been working as Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Aalto University School of Business since 2015.
Her research focuses on how entrepreneurship and emergent organizations can help tackle grand social challenges such as poverty, inequality and the refugee crisis. She has published work on the impact of microloans on entrepreneurs' quality of life, on developing and scaling ventures in the base of the pyramid, and on the emergence of social entrepreneurship, in the Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Organization Studies respectively. Her study on microloans has received the Journal of Small Business Management Award for the best paper on the topic of Public Policy.
In current research projects she is exploring the evolution of grassroots organizations addressing refugee integration challenges, the response of civil society organisations to stigmatisation under populist regimes, as well as the outcomes of prosocial motivations of organisational leaders on their ventures.
Dr. Chliova is responsible for teaching Aalto MSc students how to develop actionable venture ideas in her Venture Ideation and Venture Formation courses. She has held the role of Director of Aalto's Masters Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management during 2018-2019.
Person profile
Myrto is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Aalto University School of Business, responsible for teaching the BSc course of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.
Her research focuses on the ways that social value can be created through entrepreneurial action and the creation of new ventures. She studies both the actual effectiveness and the symbolic value of this phenomenon, also termed “social entrepreneurship”, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, and economic, sociological and psychological perspectives. Her work on the impact of microcredit on client entrepreneurs has been published at the Journal of Business Venturing and the Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research and has received the Journal of Small Business Management Award for the best paper on the topic of Public Policy in 2013.
Myrto's latest research projects explore the emergence of the organizational category of social entrepreneurship, the conditions that enable the scaling of base of the pyramid ventures in developing contexts, as well as the outcomes of prosocial motivations of entrepreneurs.
Background
Dr. Chliova holds a PhD in Management, cum laude, from ESADE Business School in Barcelona. During her PhD, she has held visiting scholar positions at Wharton Business School in the US and Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
Dr. Chliova has an academic background in Business studies, having studied for her BSc in Marketing and Communication in the Athens University of Economics and Business, and then received an MSc in Management with a focus on entrepreneurship, from Cass Business School of City University in London. Before joining the PhD program of ESADE, she had been working for some years as a marketing executive for multinationals in the field of cosmetics and perfumes. She has also supported on a part-time basis the marketing of early-stage tech startups in her native Greece.
Background
Myrto holds a PhD in Management, cum laude, from ESADE Business School in Barcelona. During her PhD, she has held visiting scholar positions at Wharton Business School in the US and Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. During her time in ESADE, Myrto has helped teach courses on Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing, Social Entrepreneurship, and Statistics. She is also one of the authors of the book “Aprendiendo de las Empresas Sociales” published by ESADE’s Institute of Social Innovation.
Myrto has an academic background in Business studies, having studied for her BSc in Marketing and Communication in the Athens University of Economics and Business, and then received an MSc in Management with a focus on entrepreneurship, from Cass Business School of City University in London. Before joining the PhD program of ESADE, she had been working for some years as a marketing executive for multinationals in the field of cosmetics and perfumes. She has also supported on a part-time basis the marketing of early-stage tech startups in Greece.