Duane Ireland is a university distinguished professor emeritus from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He received his PhD from Texas Tech University. Ireland was appointed interim dean of Mays Business School. Previously, he served Mays as associate dean for research and scholarship, as executive associate dean, and as head of the management department. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 books and published numerous articles in journals. In 2014, he served as the 69th president of the Academy of Management.

William B. Gartner is the inaugural holder of the Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College and Director of Research at the Bertarelli Institute for Family Entrepreneurship. He is recognized as a pioneer in entrepreneurship as indicated by such awards as the 2005 Swedish Entrepreneurship Foundation International Award winner for outstanding contributions to entrepreneurship and small business research, the 2013 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Foundational Paper Award winner, the 2016 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award winner and the Justin G. Longnecker Fellow Award by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) in 2022.

Mitchell J. Neubert is the Chavanne Chair of Christian Ethics in Business and a Professor of Management. Neubert originated and directed the initial activities of the Center for Christian Leadership and Ethics. He created three ethics competitions for the school, including the National MBA Case Competition in Ethical Leadership. He also served in Associate and Senior Associate Dean roles, supporting faculty research and development. Neubert’s research and teaching focus on how servant leaders, ethics, teams, and change processes impact the performance and flourishing of individuals and organizations, as well as how faith intersects with these areas of interest.

Sean Dwyer is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. His primary research interests center on topics of purpose, resilience, and fraud in entrepreneurship. His research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, and Business Horizons. Prior to joining OU, he completed his PhD in Entrepreneurship at Baylor University and earned a Masters of Accounting and a Bachelors in Finance from Tulane University.

Paul Sanchez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship whose research examines entrepreneurship both as a process of value creation and as a mechanism of broader socioeconomic change. His work explores how entrepreneurial action shapes markets, organizations, and communities, particularly in contexts marked by constraint and institutional complexity. His current research examines the interaction of entrepreneurship, ethics, and religion, exploring how entrepreneurs participate in capital markets while exercising their freedoms in ways that respect the dignity of everyone and allow them to come together for the common good. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals including Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Family Business Review, and Group & Organization Management.

Sreevas Sahasranamam is a Professor at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School. A 40 under 40 UK awardee, his work is focussed on driving SDG-focused entrepreneurship and innovation at the intersection of emerging technologies, futures thinking and policy. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Journal of Product Innovation Management. He is also dedicated to making academic insights accessible and impactful, evidenced by a collection of my blogs being awarded the Management Publication of the Year Award 2024.

Stephanie A. Fernhaber is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Butler University, Indiana, USA. Her research interests include international entrepreneurship, grassroots innovation, and societal grand challenges. She has published in leading academic journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Small Business Economics, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She has also co-created five books. Stephanie is an Area Editor for the Journal of Business Venturing.

Laurenz Weiße is an Assistant Professor at the University of Augsburg (Germany) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University (USA). He is also part of an entrepreneurship project aimed at cultivating impact-oriented entrepreneurship among students and academic staff. His research examines the theological turn in organization science, with a particular focus on entrepreneurship.

David O’Connell is Professor of Managerial Studies at St. Ambrose University. O'Connell is the author of Measuring the Dynamics of Grace at Work, Journal Of Positive Psychology. (2024). With a Doctorate in Business Administration from Boston University, O'Connell has research interests in applied faith at work and the effects of gracious behavior in fostering positive work climates.

Gunjan Saxena is a Professor and Chair in Marketing at the Paris School of Business. She is widely published in the field of integrated rural tourism focusing on how entrepreneurs’ faith and gender shape business decision-making. Her current research explores how women tourism entrepreneurs in the Global South leverage digital technologies to generate economic opportunities and foster community empowerment.

Kent Miller serves as chairperson for the Management Department and teaches strategic management courses at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the MSU faculty, he taught at Purdue University (Krannert School) and the German International Graduate School of Management and Administration (GISMA). He has been a visiting professor at Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo and New York University's Stern School of Business.

Sarah Jack is Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurship at Lancaster University. Before Lancaster, Prof. Jack served as the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Professor of Innovative and Sustainable Business Development at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE, Stockholm, Sweden) where she led several initiatives, including the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Centre for Innovative and Sustainable Business Development and the Sustainable Business Development platform for Misum, SSE’s Centre for Sustainability. Prof. Jack was also a founding member of the House of Innovation, SSE. She was recognised as Sweden’s top female academic in Business and Management for three consecutive years.

Helen Haugh is Associate Professor, Community Enterprise, and research director for the Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School. Her research interests include social and community entrepreneurship, social innovation, and business ethics. Helen’s research projects investigate hybrid organizing, community asset ownership, and asset-based development.

Ali Aslan Gümüşay is professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability at LMU Munich and head of research group Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society at the Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society Berlin. He is a board member of the German Association for Business Research as well as the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. His research focuses on (1) values, meaning and hybridity in entrepreneurship, (2) grand challenges, sustainability and new forms of organizing, (3) digitalization, management and innovation as well as (4) impact, scholarship and futures. It has been published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Theory, and Research Policy.

Prior, Prof. Gümüşay was a Visiting Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, a senior researcher at the University of Hamburg, a research fellow at Vienna University of Economics & Business, the principal investigator of the DFG network “Grand Challenges & New Forms of Organizing”, and a DAAD Prime Fellow. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he also worked as a Lecturer in Management at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Before his DPhil from Saïd Business School, he was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group."

Dave Townsend (Ph.D. Oklahoma) serves as the Digges Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. His research stream explores fundamental questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, knowledge problems, entrepreneurial action, judgment, and decision-making, religion and ethics, and resource mobilization. He also serves as a Field Editor in Strategic Entrepreneurship at the Journal of Business Venturing and the Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange (EIX.org) – a philanthropically supported entrepreneurship research translation platform connecting practitioners and scholars in a vibrant global community of practice.

Mara Fitzgibbons Adams is a Professor of Theology at St. Ambrose University. She co-chairs the Kokjohn Endowment and is director of Academic Service Learning

Chris earned his PhD in business administration with a focus on entrepreneurship and strategy in 2012. He arrived at Miami University in 2019 following appointments at Georgia Southern University and Xavier University. His research interests generally surround how entrepreneurs make decisions, specifically focusing on the impact of psychological capital and faith in deciding what opportunities to pursue and how long to pursue them. Functionally, these questions have expanded into work on the lean startup, effectuation, and supply chain concerns.

Michael Conger is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Miami University. His research interests include Identity, Values and Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship. His work has appeared in ETP, JBVI, OS, JBV, JBE and AMP.

Anupama Kondayya is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. She studies organizational and institutional change, and by extension entrepreneurship, informed by diversity, inclusion and pluralism. Her recent work has focused on pluralism, and bringing Indian and indigenous perspectives to management research with topics such as developing indigenous concepts, building inclusive academia, entrepreneurship in the traditional medical system of Ayurveda, and Hindu religious entrepreneurship.

Kylie Heales is an Assistant Professor of Management and Marketing at the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Heales's research explores how communities and entrepreneurs shape one another. Her work focuses on marginalized entrepreneurs globally, investigating relationships between entrepreneurship, social institutions, cultural norms, and community dynamics. Before joining academia, Kylie worked in community engagement and social impact assessment for major natural resource projects with URS (acquired by AECOM) and Hatch, and served as an advisor to the CEO of the Queensland Farmers' Federation in Australia.