SENIOR ADVISORY BOARD
Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he won the Carlyle Sitterson Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2002. He is chair of the Department of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Management in the Kenan Flagler Business School. In 2000, he received two honors: the Swedish Foundation of Small Business Research named him the Entrepreneurship Researcher of the Year and the Organization and Management Division of the Academy of Management presented him with an award for a Distinguished Career of Scholarly Achievement.
His book, "Organizations Evolving" (Sage, 1999), won the Academy of Management George Terry Award as the best management book published in 1998-99, and in 2006, he published a new edition of the book, with Martin Ruef as co-author. His book “Organizations and Environments” (1979) will be re-issued in paperback by Stanford University Press in 2008 as part of its Stanford Business Classics series.
Arnold Cooper was the Louis A. Weil Jr. Professor of Management at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management before retiring in 2005 and has taught strategic management and entrepreneurship at Purdue since 1963. He has served on the faculties or as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School, Stanford University, The Wharton School, and others. His research interests include: influences upon entrepreneurship and the performance of new firms, strategic responses to technological threats, and relationships between strategy and performance.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He has served on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and The Journal of Business Venturing. In 1997, he received the "International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research," a lifetime contributions award.
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt is the S. W. Ascherman M.D. Professor of Strategy and Organization and Co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University. She is widely known for her work on strategy, strategic decision making, and innovation in rapidly changing and highly competitive markets. She is the co-author of Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos, which won the George R. Terry Book Award. Professor Eisenhardt conducts research at the nexus of strategy and organization theory with particular emphasis on entrepreneurial firms and high velocity markets.
For her past research on fast strategic decision-making, she won the Pacific Telesis Foundation Award. She has also received the Whittemore Prize (with D. Charles Galunic) for her writing on organizing global corporations in high velocity markets, and the Stern Award (with Claudia B. Schoonhoven) for her work on the formation of strategic alliances in entrepreneurial companies. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and on the board of MWH Global.
Mort Kamien is an industrial organization economist whose research has focused on the theory of how business firms compete with each other along a variety of dimensions. He has contributed to the founding of the modern theory of limit pricing under. He was instrumental in developing the theory of patent races and has also made seminal contributions to the theory of patent licensing; to the theory of monopolization through acquisition; to the theory of research joint; and to the analysis of Cournot competition among firms over time as a differential game. His books Market Structure and Innovation and Dynamic Optimization: The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control in Economics and Management Science coauthored with Nancy Schwartz are classics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, is listed in Who’s Who in Economics, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Economics degree by Purdue University in 2001.
Steven N. Kaplan is the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (GSB). He is the Faculty Director of the GSB’s Polsky Entrepreneurship Center. Professor Kaplan earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. Before completing his Ph.D., Professor Kaplan held positions with Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Booz, Allen & Hamilton.
Professor Kaplan's research and teaching focus on issues in private equity and entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. He has published papers in a number of academic and business journals and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and several other journals. Business Week named him one of the top twelve business school teachers in the country. Professor Kaplan serves on the board of directors of Accretive Health, Columbia Acorn Funds, and Morningstar (MORN). He also serves as a director of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, the Kauffman Fellows Program, and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
Robert Strom directs the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s commissioned research, working with the nation’s top scholars to advance knowledge in entrepreneurship. Strom has also served on the collegiate and youth entrepreneurship teams during his tenure at the Foundation. Previously, he was a visiting professor at the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and vice president of the National Council on Economic Education. In that capacity, he worked with a national network of state councils and university-based centers for economic education to deliver economic education programs to the nation’s elementary and secondary schools. Strom has also been assistant vice president for public affairs at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, president of the Missouri Council on Economic Education, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and a member of the economics department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cincinnati.
Michael Tushman is the Paul R. Lawrence, Class of 1942, Professor of Business Administration at the Graduate School of Business of Harvard University. He is internationally recognized for his work on the relations between technological change, executive leadership and organization adaptation. Professor Tushman has published numerous articles and books and teaches courses on leading innovation and organization effectiveness and on leading strategic innovation and change. Tushman is an active consultant and instructor in corporate executive education programs around the world. He has also served on the boards of many scholarly journals. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Management in 1996, and received the distinguished scholar awards in both the Technology and Innovation Management (1999) and Organization Management and Theory (2003) Divisions of the Academy of Management. His paper with Mary Benner won the Academy of Management Review’s best paper award in 2004. He has also served as chairperson of the Organization and Management Theory and the Technology and Innovation Management Divisions of the Academy of Management. Tushman was senior advisor to the Delta Consulting Group and past trustee of IBM Credit Corporation.