Ronald K. Mitchell holds the Jean Austin Bagley Regents Chair in Management in the Jerry S. Rawls School of Business at Texas Tech University and is a Fellow at the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University. In addition, he is a Distinguished Francis G. Winspear Visiting Scholar in Business and Public Policy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Previously Dr. Mitchell was also a jointly-appointed Professor of Public Policy and Strategy at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University from 1999 – 2002. During his previous 20-year career as a CPA, turnaround CEO, and management consultant, Professor Mitchell developed expertise that would support impactful scholarship throughout his second career in academe. A leader in stakeholder research and founder of the entrepreneurial cognition research stream, Mitchell has authored five books and over 100 peer-reviewed publications. His scholarly publications have been well cited in the stakeholder and entrepreneurship literatures. Mitchell also has served as Entrepreneurship Division Chair in the Academy of Management. Named a Distinguished Educator early in his academic career, and as a national and international award winning entrepreneurship program designer, Mitchell offers highly innovative classes in organization studies and technology commercialization. He researches, consults and lectures worldwide.