Distinguished Scholar Series 2008
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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| Professor Robert A. Baron |
Dean R. Wellington ’83 Professor in Management
Lally School of Management and Technology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Friday, January 25, 2008
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Robert A. Baron is the Dean R. Wellington ’83 Professor in Management at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His teaching focuses on organizational behavior and entrepreneurship.
Professor Baron received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has held faculty appointments at Purdue University, University of Minnesota, University of Texas, University of South Carolina, University of Washington, Princeton University, and Oxford University (Visiting Fellow, 1982). He served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (1979-1981), and was appointed as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow by the French Ministry of Research (2001-2002) at the Universite des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse. He has been a Department Chair (1987-1993) and Interim Dean (2001-2002). Baron is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
Professor Baron has published more than one hundred articles and forty chapters in edited volumes. He is the author or co-author of more than forty-five books in the fields of management and psychology including Social Psychology (11th ed.), Behavior in Organizations (9th ed.), and The Psychology of Entrepreneurship. His latest book Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective (2nd ed.), will be published in February, 2007. Prof. Baron holds three U.S. patents and was founder, President, and CEO of Innovative Environmental Products, Inc. (1993-2000). His current research focuses primarily on cognitive and social factors that play a role in entrepreneurs' success.
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