Jill R. Kickul

Jill Kickul, Ph.D., is the Research Director of the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab and Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship in the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (USC). Prior to USC, Dr. Kickul served as Director of New York University Stern School of Business Social Entrepreneurship Program in the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Prior to joining the faculty at Stern, Dr. Kickul was the Richard A. Forsythe Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Thomas C. Page Center for Entrepreneurship at Miami University (Ohio) and a Professor in the Management Department in the Farmer School of Business. Prior to joining the Miami University faculty, she was the Elizabeth J. McCandless Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Simmons School of Management. She has also taught entrepreneurship internationally for the Helsinki School of Economics and for the International Bank of Asia (Hong Kong MBA Program), and has delivered research seminars at the Stockholm School of Economics, the EM Lyon School of Business, Massey University Institute for Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation, the Aarhus Center for Organizational Renewal and Evolution (CORE), and the Jönköping International Business School.

Dr. Kickul has held a number of leadership positions in various well-respected entrepreneurship and management associations. She has been the Chair of the 2008 Internationalizing Entrepreneurship Education and Training (Eighteenth Annual Global IntEnt Conference). She has also served as Co-Chair of AOM Teaching Theme Committee (Academy-wide), President of the Midwest Academy of Management, Chair of the Individual Entrepreneurship division of USASBE, Chair of the inaugural USASBE Case Competition, and Chair of the Teaching Committee for the AOM Entrepreneurship division. Dr. Kickul also participates on a number of boards and organizations, most notably the European Microfinance Network (EMN), and is a Faculty Affiliate within the Center for Gender and Organizations (CGO).

As a scholar, she has been awarded the Cason Hall & Company Publishers Best Paper Award, Michael J. Driver Best Careers Paper, the Coleman Foundation Best Empirical Paper, the John Jack Award for Entrepreneurship Education, and the IntEnt Best Paper. She has more than one hundred publications in entrepreneurship and management journals, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics, the Journal of Operations Management, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Small Business Management, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, the Journal of Business Ethics, Decision Sciences, the Journal of Innovative Education, and the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal. She is a co-author (with Lisa Gundry) of the textbook Entrepreneurship Strategy: Changing Patterns in New Venture Creation, Growth, and Reinvention (Sage, 2007).

Finally, her work on entrepreneurship education development and curriculum design has been nationally recognized and supported through the Coleman Foundation Entrepreneurship Excellence in Teaching Colleges Grant and has been named by Fortune Small Business as one of the Top 10 Innovative Programs in Entrepreneurship Education. In 2017, she was awarded the Educator of the Year award by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.