Josef Mittlemann
Josef_Mittlemann@brown.edu
Josef Mittlemann is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Division of Engineering at Brown University. He has been teaching at Brown since 2001. He teaches and has created courses focusing on management and operations of business and non profit organizations, decision making, entrepreneurship and technology management, real estate covering all aspects of urban and suburban land development, social enterprise and late adolescent-early adult life/work transition. He had been a Visiting Scholar at Brown in the Center for the Study of Human Development for a number of years prior to becoming a Visiting Fellow and then Adjunct Lecturer and Executive in Residence in the Division of Engineering. Mittlemann also sits on the President’s Advisory Committee at Brown.
In spring, 2003, he was one of four finalists for the Hazeltine Senior Citation award at Brown University recognizing excellence in teaching, guidance and support as voted upon by the graduating class. In December 2003, he won the Undergraduate Student Council Teaching Excellence Award at Brown University voted upon by the entire undergraduate student body.
Until June 2004, Mittlemann, also a graduate of Brown, chaired the Careers and Networks Committee of the BAA Board of Governors on which he served. He currently sits on the Board of the Entrepreneurship Program at Brown as well as three recent Brown alumni start ups. At Brown he has also been actively involved in the creation and implementation of several curricular and co-curricular innovations for which he won an alumni service award.
In December of 2004, Mittlemann was asked to become Chief Operating Officer of Silverstein Properties in New York with a number of key responsibilities. First was to help oversee development of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center; a second major challenge was to create a private equity fund or otherwise raise substantial equity for real estate investment; a third was to oversee the development and or sale of the 50,000 sq.ft. parcel of land owned by Silverstein Porperties on 11th Avenue between 42nd and 41st Streets in New York. In addition, Mittlemann was responsible for running the organization and creating a plan of sustainability.
Mittlemann was a key party to the framework announced by the Governors of New York and New Jersey and Mayor Bloomberg in April 2006, which finally set the financing and ownership responsibilities in order to move forward. In addition, Mittlemann had developed a signed term sheet for a partnership with CalStRs to do up to a 500 million real estate acquisition and development joint venture with Silverstein Properties in the Metropolitan area over the next three years. By April 3, 2006, Mittlemann had developed through Design Drawings and entered the Construction Drawing phase for a 1.2 million sq. ft residential rental complex of buildings on the West 42nd St. site for Silverstein designed by Costas Kondylis Partners. This project included the use of market and subsidized housing, Brownfield credits and Inclusionary housing bonuses. With these projects well set in their different stages of design and development and a plan for organizational sustainability created, Mittlemann ended his affiliation with Silverstein Properties as of May 19, 2006 to return to teaching and research.
In September, as part of his research interests, Mittlemann undertook a three month Sabbatical traveling throughout Japan, South Korea, China, Southeast Asia and Indonesia and meeting with educators, entrepreneurs, policy makers, students and artists to begin a detailed study of how entrepreneurship, higher education and contemporary art feed off each other and manifest themselves in the different locales visited in developing Asia.
Education:
Brown University, 1972 BA, Honors
Harvard University, 2000 MEd
Scholarly Interests:
Entrepreneurship studies; management and technology; leadership in organizations; development of social enterprises; the psychosocial and cognitive development of late adolescents through early adulthood.
Recent Appointments, Service Activities and Awards:
2006 Recipient Brown University Certificate of Appreciation Award
2006 Keynote Speaker Economics and Entrepreneurship Forum Luncheon
2005 Recipient Brown University Spotlight Award
2004 UTRA sponsorship awarded for work on “Entrepreneurship and Good Work.”
2004 Member Brown University, Dean of the College Committee to further study and create the concentration known as COE.
2004 Member and Co-author, Brown University Provost’s Committee to study Commerce Organizations and Entrepreneurship at Brown University.
2004 Recipient of Brown University Alumni Spotlight award for Advising the Entrepreneurship Program
2004 Faculty Sponsor Brown University, Group Independent Study programs Spring 2004 and Fall 2004 on Urban and Suburban Development.
2003 – December, Recipient of Brown University Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award
2003 – May, Finalist, Senior Citation Award for Outstanding Teaching, Guidance and Support
2002-4 Adjunct Lecturer and Executive in Residence, Division of Engineering, Brown University; 2004-present Adjunct Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University.
2002-2003 Recipient Brown University Alumni Appreciation Award
2001-2002 Visiting Fellow, Division of Engineering,Brown University.
2001-2005 Member, Board of Directors, The Glimpse Foundation
2002-present Member, Board of Directors, The Polaris Project
2000-2004 Member Board of Governors of the Brown Alumni Association;
2001-2004 Chairman of the Careers and Networking Committee for the BAA.
2001-present Annual Entrepreneurship Forum Event Moderator
2001-presentMember of the Entrepreneurship Program Board and Executive Committee
2001-present Co-founder, Co-chair Career Week program, Brown University
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Moderator Entrepreneurship Program Forum
1996-9 Visiting Scholar, Brown University. The Center for the Study of Human Development.
