Matt R. Allen (editor) - Family Entrepreneurship: Insights from Leading Experts on Successful Multi-Generational Entrepreneurial Families

is an Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurship Division and family fellow in the Institute for Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College. His expertise is in the effective management of human capital within entrepreneurial environments, especially family enterprises. His current research is focused on the role of the family in the entrepreneurial process and how entrepreneurial capability across generations should be built. His research has appeared in publications such as Personnel Psychology and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and Strategic Organization. Allen designed and is leading the Family Entrepreneurship Amplifier program, a one of a kind education program for business families that engages students and their families in the learning process in order to build entrepreneurial capability. In addition, Allen teaches other entrepreneurship and family business courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive level and has been involved in executive education programs across the world with a special interest in Latin America.

In addition to working with his father as an accountant and consultant to family businesses and other privately held organizations, he has held positions in corporate finance at IBM and Hewlett Packard. He earned his BA from the University of Utah, MBA from the University of Notre Dame and PhD from Cornell University.

is an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses at the College of Business Administration in Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia. She holds an MBA from Prince Sultan University in Riyadh and a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Coming from a family business herself, Alrubaishi research focuses on the entrepreneurial behavior of Saudi family businesses. Her research interests include family business, entrepreneurship, succession, the noneconomic aspects of family businesses, and family business innovation. Dalal published several research articles and book chapters in scientific outlets on the topic of family business.

is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on serial entrepreneurship and corporate governance. In the field of serial entrepreneurship, she is currently looking at the role of an entrepreneurs experience in corporate strategic choices. In the field of corporate governance, she is studying the influence of board diversity on corporate behavior.

has extensive experience working with family businesses in North America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The focus of his work is family and owner governance and next generation development. Bruehl also has experience working with family businesses to create family entrepreneur programs and to support coaching of members of the next generation on their business ventures.

is Faculty Professor of Finance and Family Business Governance at the Haskayne School of Business of the University of Calgary. He is also Distinguished Professor of Family Business at the Lancaster University Management School and a visiting professor at the School of Management of Zhejiang University. His research has received numerous awards and he has been listed by Web of Science among the top 1% of the most cited scholars in the world in the combined field of economics and business.