Robert D. Hisrich is the Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and Director of the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management.  He is also president of H&B Associates, a marketing and management consulting firm he founded and has been involved in the founding of several successful technology and non technology ventures.

Professor Hisrich received his BA from DePauw University, his MBA, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, and honorary doctorate degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and the University of Miskolc (Hungary).  Prior to joining Thunderbird, Dr. Hisrich held the A. Malachi Mixon, III Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.  Dr. Hisrich was a Fulbright Professor at the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary in 1989.  In 1990-91 he was again named a Fulbright Professor in Budapest at the Foundation for Small Enterprise Economic Development, where he also held the Alexander Hamilton Chair in Entrepreneurship.  Dr. Hisrich has held visiting professorships at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); the Technical University of Vienna (Austria); the University of Limerick (Ireland); Donau University (Austria); Queensland University of Technology (Australia); the University of Puerto Rico; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He has authored or co-authored twenty-six books including: Technology Entrepreneurship: Creating, Capturing and Protecting Value, International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing and Managing a Global Venture, Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a New Enterprise (translated into thirteen languages and now in its eighth edition), The 13 Biggest Mistakes that Derail Small Businesses and How to Avoid Them and The Woman Entrepreneur.  Dr. Hisrich has written over 350 articles on entrepreneurship, international business management, and venture capital, which have appeared in such journals as The Academy of Management Review, California Management Review, Columbia Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Sloan Management Review, and Small Business Economics.  He has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, and Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship.  Besides designing and delivering management and entrepreneurship programs to U.S. and foreign businesses and governments, particularly in transition economies, Dr. Hisrich has instituted academic and training programs such as an MBA program in Hungary, a high school teachers entrepreneurship program in Russia, an Institute of International Entrepreneurship and Management and the Zelengrad Business College in Russia, and an Entrepreneurship Center in China.

Not only highly respected and sought after in the academic sector, Dr. Hisrich’s expertise has been tapped by top corporations including BP Petroleum, Citicorp, Conoco, Alcoa, Westinghouse, and Corning Glass.