The First University in the West                                                                                                Rob Wiltbank, Ph.D.

                                                                                                                                                          Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

The Best MBA Education in the Northwest                                                                             Wiltbank@Willamette.edu

                                                                                                                                                          Short Bio

The Largest Full Time MBA Program in Oregon

 

 

Things I study

 

Enterpreneurial Expertise

      Behavioral Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm

 

      Designing Organizations that Design Environments

 

      Marketing in the absence of Markets

 

      Decision Making by Expert Entrepreneurs

 

angel investing

      At the Individual Level: Angel Investing in the U.S.

 

      Prediction and Control in Angel Investing Outcomes

 

      Venture Capital Practives, Angel Investor Returns

   

 

Organizational Strategy

      Top Management Change in New Ventures

 

      What to Do Next? 

            The Case for Non-Predictive Strategy

 

      How Investor Perceptions of CompetitiveStrategy Influence

            the Market Valuation ofPublicly Traded Internet Firms

 

 

 

For a great paper from Saras Sarasvathy providing the basis for some of the above work on effectuation and non-predictive control,

take a look at: http://www.effectuation.org/ftp/AMR01.pdf

 

VITA

 

About me: http://www.willamette.edu/agsm/faculty/wiltbank.htm