Shaker Zahra

Shaker A. Zahra is the Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship,a professor of strategy, and department chair in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He is also the Academic Director of the Gary S. Holmes Entrepreneurship Center.

Previously, he was Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Georgia State University, associate professor of strategy at George Mason University, and assistant professor of Management at Old Dominion University. He has also held the 3TU Chair in International Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

His research connects entrepreneurship, internationalization, strategy, and technology management. He has served on the editorial boards of more than 25 professional journals. He has received Best Paper honors from numerous journals, as well as teaching awards including Best Teacher in the MBA program and a mentorship award. He has been the keynote speaker for more than 40 conferences and conventions. He also serves as a consultant to multiple technology-based companies.

In his research Shaker examines: (1) entrepreneurship & national policy in global tech-based industries; (2) international entrepreneurship; (3) corporate entrepreneurship & Knowledge creation, absorption & conversion; and (4) entrepreneurship knowledge and capability development in nascent global industries.

Shaker has received several grants, honors and awards, including 3 honorary Ph.D. degrees from Stockholm School of Economics, Jonkoping International Business School (both in Sweden) and Ghent University (Belgium). He is the 2014 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, 21st Century Research Fellow of the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, Fellow of the Southern Management Association, Fellow of the International Family Enterprise Association (IFERA), and the Raymond Institute for Family Business.

Shaker's ongoing research focuses on: robotics, software applications, global mobile applications, videogame, pharma, and nano-technology. Besides his research in the US, Shaker has research projects under way in several countries that include: China, Swaziland, Brazil, India, Morocco, Korea, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Spain. These studies make use of multiple methods and theory; they also cover multiple levels of the analysis.

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