Donald F. Kuratko

The Jack M. Gill Chair of Entrepreneurship

Indiana University, Bloomington

Dr. Donald F. Kuratko is considered a prominent scholar and national leader in the field of entrepreneurship. Author of over 160 articles on aspects of entrepreneurship and corporate innovation in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Executive, and Journal of Small Business Management. Professor Kuratko has authored 22 books, including one of the leading entrepreneurship books in the world today, Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, Practice, 7th ed. (2007), as well as Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation (2008) and Strategic Entrepreneurial Growth (2004). In addition, Dr. Kuratko has been consultant on Corporate Innovation to a number of major Fortune 100 corporations and he is the Executive Director of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), an organization of over 200 top university entrepreneurship centers throughout the world.

Professor Kuratko's honors include earning the Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of Indiana; induction into the Institute of American Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame; the George Washington Medal of Honor; the Leavey Foundation Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise; the NFIB Entrepreneurship Excellence Award; the National Model Innovative Pedagogy Award for Entrepreneurship; the National Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator; and a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow. Dr. Kuratko was honored by his peers in Entrepreneur magazine as the #1 Entrepreneurship Program Director in the nation. In 2007 The U.S. Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship honored him with the prestigious John E. Hughes Entrepreneurial Advocacy Award for his career achievements in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Also in 2007, the National Academy of Management honored Professor Kuratko with the highest award bestowed in entrepreneurship – the prestigious Entrepreneurship Advocate Award - for his contributions to the development and advancement of the discipline of entrepreneurship. Under Dr. Kuratko's leadership Indiana University's Entrepreneurship Program has been ranked the #1 Graduate Business School for Entrepreneurship (Public Institutions) and the #1 Undergraduate Business School for Entrepreneurship (Public Institutions) by U.S. News & World Report. In 2007 Indiana University was awarded the National Model MBA Program in Entrepreneurship for the MBA Program in Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Office: (812) 855-4248; Fax: (812) 855-2751; E-mail: dkuratko@indiana.edu