Lehigh Names Executive Director of Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise
Lehigh University College of Business and Economic‘s professor Todd A Watkins has been named the executive director of the Lehigh University Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise. Watkins is the second person to hold this title since the center was founded. In addition to serving as the Arthur F. Searing Professor of Economics at Lehigh, Watkins is also the founding executive director of the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation and co-founded the Integrated Product Development (IPD) program at Lehigh.
The Martingale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise was established in 1980 by Dr. J. Richard Aronson through a generous endowment from Elizabeth and Harry Martindale. Dr. Aronson joined Lehigh as an assistant professor of economics in 1965. He was with Lehigh University for 50 years until his retirement this year. Dr. Aronson spent 30 years with the Martindale Center and has helped to shape it in to the successful center it is today.
