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Jerome A. Katz | |
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Born | Jerome A. Katz Memphis, TN USA |
Occupation | Professor |
Employer | Saint Louis University |
Title | Coleman Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship |
Predecessor | Robert Brockhaus |
Website | www.entrepreneurshipeducation.com |
Jerome A. Katz is an American professor, consultant and author who specializes in the process and discipline of entrepreneurship. He is currently the Coleman Professor of Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University in St Louis, Missouri. He is also founding director of the university’s Billiken Angels Network investment program.
Education
Katz attended Rhodes College in Memphis from 1970 to 1973, earning a BA (Honors) in psychology, political science and urban studies. He then received a Masters in psychology from the University of Memphis in 1976 before going to Harvard to study administration, planning and social policy where he received a Certificate of Advanced Study in 1977. His PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan was awarded in 1981.[1]
Career
Academia
From 1978 to 1980 Katz was a project director at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, developing program evaluation methods for the US Department of Agriculture’s 4-H clubs. From 1980 to 1987 he was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. In 1987 Katz moved to Saint Louis University as assistant professor of management and later became an associate, then full, professor. In 1998 he was awarded the Mary Louise Murray Endowed Professorship in management, and in 2005 he took over the Coleman Chair of Entrepreneurship [2] from Robert Brockhaus, who held the chair since its inception in 1991.[3]
Publications
Katz, with Richard Green, is the author of Entrepreneurial Small Business, a textbook for small business owners published in US, international, Chinese and Korean editions by McGraw-Hill. He is a founding editor for the annual book series Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth published by Emerald. He is also the author of over 30 peer-reviewed academic papers,[1] including four papers included in compendia of notable or classic works in entrepreneurship. In 2013 Katz and William Gartner received the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division Foundational Paper Award for their 1988 paper “Properties of Emerging Organizations.”
References
- ^ a b Jacobi, Jorie (May 15, 2013). "The Godfather of Startups: Dr. Jerome Katz, Coleman Chair of Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University". stlcurator.
- ^ St Louis University Faculty: John Cook School of Business, retrieved 23 Dec 2014.
- ^ "Coleman Entrepreneurship Chairs & Professorships". Retrieved Dec 2014.
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