DrC

Location:

Nashville, TN

Date of Birth:

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About Me:

My interest in entrepreneurship came early in life. I grew-up with entrepreneurship and small business as topics around the dinner table at night. My family was involved in many ventures. My father le…moreft a career in corporate America to pursue an entrepreneurial career in the mid-1970s. Today my father is an active, octogenarian entrepreneur. I was fortunate to be able to be involved in many of my father's entrepreneurial endeavors from an early age. That is where I caught the entrepreneurial bug. Here at Belmont, I am the inaugural Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship. Previously, I was the Sandra Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota and was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the University of Kentucky. I have a Doctorate in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Kentucky, and received my undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In the late 1980's, I felt the entrepreneurial calling in life and left academics to become the Co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Our company operated a variety of health care facilities and programs and employed over 300 people. After nine years of rapid growth, we negotiating the sale of most of our corporations' business interests, and I returned to academics. I consult with a variety of businesses on start-up and growth related issues. My current research and teaching interests include entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial ethics. I authored or co-authored six books. My latest two books are "Bringing Your Business to Life", due out in the summer of 2008 and "Bootstrapping", due out in 2009.

Expertise:

Growth, Entrepreneurial Finance, Entrepreneurial Ethics

Interests:

music, golf, travel, long walks with our dogs, watching Green Bay…more Packer football games and Kentucky Wildcat basketball games, attending Belmont basketball games