Andrew Corbett is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Lally School of Management & Technology, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Professor Corbett’s research focus is on cognitive aspects of the entrepreneurial process and strategic renewal. He has published numerous articles in leading entrepreneurship and management journals. Professor Corbett is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Management Studies where he is the primary editor for entrepreneurship manuscripts. He is also a member of the editorial board of Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice. Professor Corbett will begin his term on the Board of Reviewers for the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference and as an editor of Frontiers in Entrepreneurship in the fall of 2009. He has served the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management on nearly a dozen committees during the last decade. Professor Corbett has been recognized for his excellence in teaching on numerous occasions by both RPI and by the Entrepreneurship Division.

Dr. Mike Haynie is the Guttag Research Fellow, and Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprise at the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University.

Mike completed his doctoral dissertation in the field of Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy at the Leeds College of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder. His research is focused on decision-making, identity, entrepreneurial thinking, and has been published in many of the leading entrepreneurship and business journals. Professor Haynie has received numerous awards for both his scholarship and teaching, including the Guttag Research Fellowship (2007-2009), the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Award for Excellence in Research on the General Topic of Entrepreneurship (2007), and the 2007 Mescon Award for the Best Empirical Research paper in Entrepreneurship from the Academy of Management. In 2007, Syracuse University honored Dr. Haynie as the recipient of the Oberwager Prize for his efforts to make a difference in the lives of young people outside the classroom.

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.

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.

Dr. Fiet holds the Brown-Forman Chair in Entrepreneurship and is a professor of Management at the University of Louisville. He is also the founder and former director of the University’s entrepreneurship PhD program. In addition, to publishing numerous journal articles, in 2002, he published The Systematic Search for Entrepreneurial Discoveries, which reports on the development and testing of a new paradigm about how entrepreneurs can search for discoveries. In 2008, he published Prescriptive Entrepreneurship, which reports on the testing of theoretically derived and empirically tested methods for improving entrepreneurial performance.