Edward Rogoff
Professor of Entrepreneurship and former Dean of the Long Island University Brooklyn School of Business

Edward G. Rogoff is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and former Dean of the Long Island University Brooklyn School of Business. He served as the Lawrence N. Field Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is also a Clinical Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Wagner School of New York University. He holds B.A., M.A., M.B.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.

 

Dr. Rogoff teaches, and conducts research in entrepreneurship, particularly relative to minority and later-life issues. In 2010, he was named the Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. 

 

He is the author of Bankable Business Plans, Bankable Business Plans for Non-Profits, co-author of The Entrepreneurial Conversation and The Second Chance Revolution: Working for Yourself after 50. He has published in such academic journals as The Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, The Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Family Business Review, and Journal of Small Business Management. He initiated and supervised the largest study of minority entrepreneurs in the United States, the National Minority Business Owners Survey. 

 

Professor Rogoff has written articles for the New York Times, Forbes, and Newsday, as well as having been a guest on CNN.  Prior to joining the faculty at Baruch College, he was an entrepreneur in the radio broadcasting industry where he headed two companies that operated 23 radio stations throughout the United States.  

 

Professor Rogoff inherited the hemophilia gene, so he had very little clotting factor present in his blood at birth. When he was born in 1951, treatment for his disease was primitive and involved many lengthy childhood hospitalizations and long separations from his family. Parents were only allowed to visit hospitalized children during brief visiting hours. Like all people born with hemophilia, Professor Rogoff was dependent on blood products to provide his missing clotting factor. As a result of his lifetime of use, he was vulnerable to the viruses carried in the tainted pooled blood used in his medications. As a result, most hemophiliacs contracted Hepatitis C, and many became infected with the AIDS virus. 

 

Although Professor Rogoff never contracted HIV, by the time he was 60, his liver had been so scarred and weakened by hepatitis C, he developed liver cancer. The only cure was a liver transplant, which he underwent at The Cleveland Clinic in 2011. Not only did this procedure save his life with a healthy new liver, but since clotting factor is manufactured in the liver, it also cured him of his hemophilia. 

 

Professor Rogoff became committed to helping his fellow hemophiliacs by joining the Board of the Hemophilia Association of New York in 1990, and, following his liver transplant, he served until recently on the Board of LiveOnNY, the major organ donor organization for the New York City metropolitan area. He remains a major advocate for continued research and better treatments for all patients who receive scary diagnoses.