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Lehigh Business
Joshua Ehrig
Teaching Full Professor
Management
Office: RBC 331
jwe4@lehigh.edu
Courses Taught
- ENTP 101 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- ENTP 304 - Technology Ventures
- ENTP 311 - Entrepreneurship Capstone I: Innovate, Create, and Transform
- ENTP 312 - Entrepreneurship Capstone II: Launch, Scale, and Lead
- GBEN 424 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- GBUS 442- Management Consulting Practicum
- MGT 314: Business Consulting Practicum
- MGT 431 - Leadership in Contemporary Organizations
- MBA 401- Introduction to the Organization and its Environment
- MBA 406 - Integrative Experience
- MGT 438 - Strategy for a Competitive Advantage
- TE 497 - Blueprint for Success: Business Models for Research Translation
Joshua Ehrig brings a founder's instincts into the classroom: less theory, more "Does this actually work?" His goal isn't simply to teach entrepreneurship - it's to help students think and act like founders. As a teaching full professor in Lehigh University's department of management, he teaches strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship and venture development to undergraduates, MBA students, Ph.D. researchers and senior executives across a range of industries.
Before entering academia, Ehrig co-founded and led multiple technology ventures, guiding them from early-stage development through growth and successful exits. That experience shapes his teaching: entrepreneurship isn't something to memorize - it's something to build, test and execute.
He teaches six to eight courses each year, continuously redesigning them as markets, technology and entrepreneurship evolve. He has received six MBA Teaching Excellence Awards and a college-wide teaching award. In 2026, he was promoted to teaching full professor, Lehigh's highest-ranking non-tenure-track faculty appointment.
Beyond the classroom, Ehrig partners with organizations to design innovation and transformation initiatives. In one multi-year engagement with a global company, his team developed innovation blueprints that informed operating model design and digital transformation efforts spanning AI, supply chain and robotics - work that ultimately translated into contracted revenue for the client.
Ehrig holds multiple graduate degrees from Lehigh University, along with executive education credentials from MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley and Stanford. But ask what drives his teaching, and he'll point somewhere else entirely:
"Educators used to be gatekeepers of scarce information," Ehrig says. "Now information is abundant - our job is to help students filter what's real and turn it into something that works."
He adds that this starts with the whole person: "Clear thinking, sound judgment, and resilience all rest on the same foundation — a healthy mind and body."