ROBERT D. HISRICH

Robert D. Hisrich is the Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and Director for the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He holds an MBA and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.

Professor Hisrich's research pursuits are focused on entrepreneurship and venture creation: entrepreneurial ethics, intrapreneurship, women and minority entrepreneurs, venture financing, and global venture creation. He teaches courses and seminars in these areas, as well as in marketing management and product planning and development. His interest in global management and entrepreneurship resulted in two Fulbright Fellowships in Budapest, Hungary; honorary degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and University of Miskolc (Hungary); and being a visiting faculty member in universities in Austria, Australia, Ireland, and Slovenia. Professor Hisrich serves on the editorial boards of several prominent journals in entrepreneurial scholarship, is on several boards of directors, and is author or coauthor of over 300 research articles appearing in such journals as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Small Business Finance, Small Business Economics, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Professor Hisrich has authored or coauthored 25 books or editions, including: Marketing: A Practical Management Approach, How to Fix and Prevent the 13 Biggest Problems That Derail Business, and two recently published books International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing and Managing a Global Venture, and Technology Entrepreneurship: Value Creation, Protection, and Capture.

MICHAEL P. PETERS

Michael P. Peters is Professor Emeritus of the Marketing Department at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. He has his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his MBA and BS from Northeastern University. Recently retired from fulltime teaching, Professor Peters has been a visiting professor at the American College of Greece in Athens, Greece, where he has been developing an entrepreneurship and business planning component in its new MBA program. In addition he continues to write, lecture, serve on numerous boards, and assist in the management of a family business. Besides his passion for assisting entrepreneurs in new ventures he has consulted and conducted seminars and workshops worldwide related to entrepreneurship, international and domestic decision making for new product development, market planning, and marketing strategy. He has published over 30 articles in such journals as the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Columbia Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, and the Sloan Management Review. Professor Peters has coauthored three texts: Marketing a New Product: Its Planning, Development and Control; Marketing Decisions for New and Mature Products; and Entrepreneurship, now in its eighth edition. He was Department Chair and Director of the Small Business Institute at Boston College for more than 16 years. He loves photography, tennis, golf, and kayaking on Cape Cod Bay.

DEAN A. SHEPHERD

Dean A. Shepherd is the Randall L. Tobias Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Dean received his doctorate and MBA from Bond University (Australia) and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His research on entrepreneurial leadership includes the decision making of entrepreneurs, new venture strategy, learning from failure, and pursuit of opportunity. Dean is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Venturing and on the review board for numerous entrepreneurship and management journals.