Mason Carpenter is a Full Professor & the M. Keith Weikel Chair in Leadership at The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His areas of expertise are strategic management, international management, and entrepreneurship. His research interests include Managing global firms, global start ups, corporate governance, and top management teams.

Melissa Cardon teaches managerial and organizational concepts, human resource management, negotiations, and leadership in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Pace. She is an Assistant Professor of Management. Professor Cardon has earned the William G. Sharwell Award for dedication to the campus community in Pleasantville, and three teaching awards at her former University.

Prior to joining Lubin, Professor Cardon was an HR analyst for Key Bank, where she managed organizational compliance with EEO/AA regulations, including recruiting, training, and compliance audit management. Her research focuses on unleashing human potential within entrepreneurial firms, including a dual interest in HR practices that maximize employee potential, and the emotional, relational, and cognitive aspects of entrepreneurs that contribute to optimizing their behavior and performance. Recent work of Professor Cardon’s includes a focus on entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial failure, and the organizational attractiveness of small firms to applicants. Her work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Human Resources Management Review, and Human Resources Management, as well as several book chapters, and she has received several awards for both conceptual and empirical research studies.

Jeffery S. McMullen is an assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He received his MBA and PhD from the University of Colorado. An award-winning researcher and teacher, Dr. McMullen serves on numerous editorial boards and has published in Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Small Business Economics, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. His current research examines the socio-cognitive mechanisms of entrepreneurial agency, the interplay of entrepreneurial agency and institutional context, and social entrepreneurship.

Dean Shepherd is the Randall L. Tobias Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Dean received his doctorate and MBA from Bond University (Australia) and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His research on entrepreneurial leadership includes the decision making of entrepreneurs, new venture strategy, learning from failure, and pursuit of opportunity. Dean is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Venturing and on the review board for numerous entrepreneurship and management journals.