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2009 IDEA Awards (left) Smith & Wollensky August 9, 2009 Chicago, IL 2008 IDEA Awards (right) Morton's The Steakhouse August 12, 2008 Anaheim, CA The IDEA Awards IDEA Awards Program, created jointly by the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and the University of Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was established to recognize research excellence in the entrepreneurship field across multiple contributing disciplines. The IDEA Awards are an important addition to the series of awards offered by the Division to fulfill its vision to "grow entrepreneurship scholars" through research excellence. IDEA Award winners were selected from dozens of nominations that were submitted representing high quality research that sets the standard for excellence in research within the field of entrepreneurship. The IDEA Awards recognize and honor research excellence in the following three distinct categories:
THOUGHT LEADER Representative of the best published papers in entrepreneurship in 2008 RESEARCH PROMISE Awarded to the recipients of the following 2008 Entrepreneurship Division Award: Please join with us in congratulating and encouraging the top-tier scholars and scholarship that the IDEA Awards recognize. Thank you for your support of this annual event. Back to Top .jpg) .jpg) Ronald K. Mitchell Entrepreneurship Division Chair, IDEA Awards Co-Chair Richard N. Dino Executive Director, Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, IDEA Awards Co-Chair Ronald K. Mitchell Professor of Entrepreneurship Jean Austin Bagley Regents Chair in Management Division Chair, Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Rawls College of Business Texas Tech University LINKS: Website, CV 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. Richard N. Dino Associate Professor of Management Executive Director, Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) Northeast Utilities Scholar in Technological Entrepreneurship School of Business University of Connecticut LINKS: Website, CV 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. Click the program images to view for IDEA Awards Winners and Information by year
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