Ronald K. Mitchell is Professor of Entrepreneurship, and holds the Jean Austin Bagley Regents Chair in Management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. He previously held the Francis G. Winspear Chair in Public Policy Business, and was the Faculty of Business Board of Advisors Distinguished Educator at the University of Victoria BC, Canada. While there he also held a joint appointment in the Department of Public Policy and Strategy at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University (Beijing, PRC).

His academic career centers on three areas of research, teaching, and service: (1) better understanding pathways to new value creation, (2) supporting development of individual and organizational moral reasoning and ethical capacity, and (3) assisting with effective engagement among actors within the global business community. In his research, he is therefore interested in strategies for increasing economic well-being in society—both domestically and internationally—through the study of entrepreneurs (domestically and cross-culturally), the further development of stakeholder theory, and the development of transaction systems theory.

Ron earned his CPA in 1978, and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1994, winning the Academy of Management’s 1995 Heizer Award for his dissertation: The composition, classification, and creation of new venture formation expertise. Ron publishes and serves in editorial review capacities in the top entrepreneurship and management journals, and is also 2008-2009 Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division. He is co-author of the Ivey Casebook: Cases in Entrepreneurship, one of the first texts to apply entrepreneurial cognition research focused specifically on the development of students’ “entrepreneurial minds.” He researches, consults, and lectures worldwide.

Rich Dino is the Northeast Utilities Scholar in Technological Entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut School of Business and a member of the Management faculty. He serves as Executive Director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI), with leadership responsibilities for developing and implementing the School’s strategy in the field of entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Investment Advisory Board of Next Generation Ventures, LLC, a Connecticut venture capital firm.

His research stream focuses on small to medium-sized, closely-held businesses with most recent interest in Founder CEOs and the stages of growth in entrepreneurial firms. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Business Venturing, and Organization Science, among others.

Rich served as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Business Partnering and External Alliances from 1998 – 2006 at the UConn School of Business. He spent more than two decades in the business world, working for several firms including Eastman Kodak, Corning, Inc. and Xerox. He has extensive experience as an entrepreneur having started four enterprises. Rich earned his B.S. at the Pennsylvania State University (1972, with High Distinction), and M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) in economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Dimo Dimov is Assistant Professor of Management at University of Connecticut. From 2004 until 2006, he was on the faculty at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He received a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from London Business School (University of London) in 2004. Prior to entering academia, he was a finance executive with Marriott International in Hungary. Dimo’s research focuses on both sides of entrepreneurial opportunities – how potential entrepreneurs create them and how investors select them. It has been published in numerous academic journals as well as presented at numerous international conferences. Dimo’s teaching focuses on the generation, assessment, and development of entrepreneurial opportunities.

Lucy Gilson is an Associate Professor and Ackerman Scholar at the University of Connecticut and is an Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM - UK) visiting International Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior with a minor in Human Resource Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also earned her MBA from Georgia Tech and her undergraduate degree from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Lucy’s research primarily focuses on teams and creativity. Specifically, she is interested in how creativity, employee empowerment, diversity, fairness issues, and virtual communication influence team effectiveness. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior and The Leadership Quarterly. She serves on the Editorial Board of several journals. Lucy is currently the Department of Management’s PhD Coordinator and teaches undergraduate, MBA, and executives level courses in organizational behavior and change management. Lucy has been actively involved in the OB Division of AoM and is the Chair of the New Member Making Connections Committee. She was also the Ethics & Diversity Track Chair in 2006, and the OB/OT/OD Track Chair in 2008 for the Southern Management Association (SMA).

Dr. Michael Lubatkin, is the Thomas, John, and Bette Wolff Family Chaired Professor of Strategic Entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut and Professor of Management at Ecole de Management de Lyon (France). An elementary teacher before receiving his DBA from the University of Tennessee in 1982, Dr. Lubatkin specializes in corporate diversification issues as they pertain to problems of core competence transfer and risk management between divisions and across national borders, in corporate governance issues as they pertain to family and entrepreneurial firms, and in upper echelon theory as it pertains to corporate entrepreneurship. An award winning instructor at both the undergraduate and MBA level, he was the elected Chair of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management (1998), has published over 75 articles, 10 book chapters and 9 cases, and has had his research honored with three international awards (1983; 1992; 2001).

John Mathieu is a Professor and the Department Head of Management at the University of Connecticut. He also holds the Cizik Chair in Management at UConn. His primary areas of interest include models of training effectiveness, team and multi-team processes, and cross-level models of organizational behavior. He has conducted work with several Fortune 500 companies, the armed services (i.e., Army, Navy, and Air Force), federal and state agencies (e.g., NRC, NASA, FAA, DOT), and numerous public and private organizations. Dr. Mathieu has over 80 publications, 175 presentations at national and international conferences, and has been a PI or Co-PI on over $5M in grants and contracts. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association as well as the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and a member of the Academy of Management. He serves on numerous editorial boards and has guest edited special volumes of top-level journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University.

Elaine Mosakowski is a professor of Management at the University of Connecticut’s School of Business. After receiving her Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, she has held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, UCLA’s Anderson School, Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management, and the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. Her research interests revolve around a range of topics that involve the relationship between entrepreneurs, new venture opportunities, firm resources, and firm strategy. These topics include the relationship between new ventures’ social networks and their performance, the influence of knowledge spillovers on firm startups, and the link between an entrepreneur’s identity and his/her motivation. She has published papers in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Management. Her most recent research has focused on problems relating to social innovation and social entrepreneurship, including a study of how personal values influence how a firm’s resources are perceived, evaluated, and deployed toward strategic goals. This research interest is also paralleled by a programmatic initiative that she has co-founded with Dean Chris Earley to create a new learning accelerator for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Connecticut who are interested in sustainable community outreach and public engagement (SCOPE).

Jack Veiga is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Management and the Northeast Utilities Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Connecticut, School of Business. Jack’s research spans multiple areas and has appeared in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Human Relations, among others. He is a Charter Member of the Academy of Management’s Journals Hall of Fame and past Editor of Academy of Management Executive (now known as Perspectives). Until recently, Jack Veiga served as the Management Department Head at the University of Connecticut in excess of 28 years.