Conferences

  		 
USASBE 2010 Pillar Sessions

 

Scholarship
Friday, January 15: 10:15am - 11:30am
Michael A. Hitt
Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership
Mays Business School
Texas A&M University

Dr. Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor of Management and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has over 260 publications including 26 co-authored or co-edited books. He has served as an editor of the Academy of Management Journal and is currently the founding co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He received the 1996 Award for Outstanding Academic Contributions to Competitiveness and the 1999 Award for Outstanding Intellectual Contributions to Competitiveness Research from the American Society for Competitiveness. A recent article noted that he was among the 10 most cited scholars in the Management field over a 25 year period. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Management and a Fellow in the Strategic Management Society, a 21st Century Research Fellow in the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers and received an honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is a former President of the Academy of Management and the current Past President of the Strategic Management Society. He received awards for the best article published in the Academy of Management Executive (1999), Academy of Management Journal (2000) and the Journal of Management (2006). In 2001, he received the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management. In 2005, he was also named an Honorary Professor and Honorary Dean of Xi’an Jiaotong University, People’s Republic of China. In 2006, he received the Falcone Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar Award from Syracuse University.

 

Pedagogy
Friday, January 15: 10:15am - 11:30am
Patricia G. Greene
President's Chair in Entrepreneurship
Babson College
  
Patricia G. Greene is Professor of Entrepreneurship of Babson College, where she holds the President's Chair in Entrepreneurship. She previously served as Provost, and before that as the Dean of the Undergraduate School at Babson and held the President’s Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Babson she held the Ewing Marion Kauffman/Missouri Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (1998-2003) and the New Jersey Chair of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers University (1996-1998). Dr. Greene earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a BS from the Pennsylvania State University. She was a founding member of the Rutgers Center for Entrepreneurial Management and the coordinator of the Rutgers Entrepreneurship Curriculum. At UMKC she helped to found KC SourceLink, the Entrepreneurial Growth Resource Center (EGRC), the iStrategy Studio, the Business and Information Development Group (BRIDG), the UMKC Students in Free Enterprise Program (SIFE), the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Internship Program (KEIP), the Entrepreneurial Effect, the Network for Entrepreneurship Educators and Researchers (NEER), and the annual regional Business Plan Competition.
 Heidi Neck
Jeffry A. Timmons Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
Babson College
  
Heidi Neck is the Jeffry A. Timmons Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College. As Faculty Director of the Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE), she passionately works to improve the pedagogy of entrepreneurship education because new venture creation is the engine of society. Given the integrated and multidisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship, teaching entrepreneurship requires an entrepreneurial approach.

 

Public Policy
Saturday, January 16: 10:15am - 11:30am
Chad Moutray
Chief Economist & Director of Economic Research
U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy
 
Chad Moutray joined the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy in October 2002. At Advocacy, he is the Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic Research. In this role, he oversees the research being conducted both internally and externally through contracts. Advocacy is responsible for disseminating and maintaining a number of databases on small firms.
 
Prior to joining Advocacy, Chad was the Dean of the School of Business Administration at Robert Morris College (RMC) in Chicago, where he taught economics and finance courses.
 
Chad Moutray has a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and an M.A. and B.A. in economics from Eastern Illinois University.

 

Outreach
Saturday, January 16: 10:15am - 11:30am
Phil Weilerstein
Executive Director
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
 
Phil Weilerstein is the Executive Director of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). He began his career as an entrepreneur as a student at the University of Massachusetts. He and a team including his advisor, launched a start-up biotech company which ultimately went public. This experience, coupled with a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship, led to his work with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Phil’s tenure at the NCIIA is marked by his skill for network-building and expert leverage of resources. He has a special talent for seeking out gifted educators and other important contributors and putting them to work for the betterment of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship education in the U.S. and worldwide. As an entrepreneur in a not-for-profit organization, he has grown the NCIIA from a grassroots group of enthusiastic faculty to a nationally known and in-demand knowledge base and resource center. Phil also serves as the Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the American Society of Engineering Education.