Dr Sharmistha Banerjee, Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Business Management, University of Calcutta has joined the School of Business (SoB), BU as a visiting faculty for the Fall 2006 session. She is a Ph.D. in Business Management from University of Calcutta and has over 15 years of teaching experience at post graduate and undergraduate levels. Besides her regular teaching assignments for the MBM program she is closely associated with Netaji Subhas Open University and Bengal National Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata in promoting small business entrepreneurs. Her research interests include academic studies on child labour and primary education, in which she has completed a number of international research projects. With special expertise in small business and entrepreneurship, she had been a Fulbright Scholar at the Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, USA.