2018 Best Paper in the  Corporate Strategy Interest Group for “How does the potential for resource redeployment affect market exit decisions? Evidence from the global retail sector,” with T. Sohl.

Strategic Management Society Conference Best Paper Award

2018 Best Paper FInalist for “How does the potential for resource redeployment affect market exit decisions? Evidence from the global retail sector,” with T. Sohl.

Strategic Management Society Conference Best Paper Award Finalist

2012 IDEA Foundational Paper Award in the Entrepreneurship Division at the Academy of Management honoring a paper that has powerfully and positively changed the conversation in the field of entrepreneurship for at least a decade

IDEA Foundational Paper Award

Academy of Management, executive committee member, the Entrepreneurship Division (2015-present)

Fellow at the University of Strasbourg (France) Institute for Advanced Study (2012-2016)

Academy of Management Business Policy and Strategy co-chair of the Doctoral Consortium (2004-2005)

Academy of Management, executive committee member, the Business Policy and Strategy Division (2003-2005)

Academy of Management Business Policy and Strategy, member of member of the Research Committee (1999-2001)

Visiting Professor at LUISS University (Rome)

Endogeneity in Strategy-Performance Analysis: An Application to Initial Human Capital Strategy and New Venture Performance

Entry, Exit and the Potential for Resource Redeployment

Entrepreneurship and high‐technology clusters

EXAMINING RESOURCE REDEPLOYMENT IN MULTI-BUSINESS FIRMS

Examining Resource Redeployment in Multi-Business Firms

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University of Connecticut

Timothy B. Folta is Professor, Thomas John and Bette Wolff Family Chair of Strategic Entrepreneurship at University of Connecticut, Faculty Director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Assistant Program Chair of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management.

His research and teaching examine both entrepreneurship and corporate strategy, analyzing decisions around entry, exit, and diversification. He is currently examining the role of the corporate headquarters in multi-business firms in reallocating strategic resources across businesses, and the effectiveness of government grant programs in supporting technical entrepreneurship. 

He is associate editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, co-Editor of a 2016 volume of Advances in Strategic Management on Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy, and on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Strategy Science.

Strategic Management

Market Entry and Exit

Corporate Strategy and Diversification

Innovation Policy

Managing Uncertainty

Venture Capital and Angel Capital

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Companies might invest more in new ventures if they could see in advance how to redeploy the assets if things don’t pan out

7 TED Talks That Will Change the Way You Look at Business

DO ANGEL INVESTORS LEAVE STARTUPS LAGGING?

Professor of Management; Thomas John and Bette Wolff Family Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship; Academic Director, Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entrepreneurs play a vital role in the success of business and technological innovations, but some impediments do limit their full potential.  Dr. Timothy Folta explains how we can redefine the term "entrepreneurship" to overcome those hurdles and attract the best and brightest individuals to become entrepreneurs and ensure a brighter future for all of us.
Dr. Folta is Associate Professor of Management at Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management.  His research focuses on firm entry and exit, with a particular emphasis on entrepreneurial ventures, especially in the medical device and biotechnology industries.  Dr. Folta is also Director of BIOMEDSHIP, a program designed to study and provide leadership in biomedical entrepreneurship and innovation.

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