Faculty Biographies

David Pistrui

Office: 4A5
E-Mail: pistrui@iit.edu
Phone: 312-567-3948
Fax: 312.567.3950

Education

• Ph.D. in Business Administration (Cum Laude) in Entrepreneurship, Stragegy and Management from University Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Bucharest (Romania) 2003
• M.A. in Liberal Studies from DePaul University 2001
• B.S. in Business Administration in Marketing and Economics from Western Michigan University1993

Affiliated Programs

Research Interests

Dr. David Pistrui is the Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and holds the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has held a number of scholarly appointments in the United States and Europe: founding Managing Director of the Wharton Enterprising Families Initiative (Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania), the Raymond Chair in Family Business (Alfred University, New York), and founding Director of the Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurial Leadership (Alfred University).

With over twenty years of business experience, Dr. Pistrui serves as an educator, advisor and consultant to family and closely held businesses, global corporations, and notfor-profit organizations. He is currently the Managing Director of Acumen Dynamics, LLC, a strategy-based education training and research firm that helps organizations align vision and strategy with execution and performance.

Selected Publications, 2007-08

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Family and Cultural Factors Impacting Entrepreneurship and Innovation Special Issue Guest Co-Editor, Interscience Publishers, Geneva, Switzerland, Fall, 2008.

Building an Entrepreneurial Engineering Ecosystem for Future Generations: The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network, American Society of Engineering Educators 2008 Annual Conference Proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 22-25, 2008.

Fostering Value Innovation and Maintaining an Innovation Ecosystem, The 7th Wuhan International Conference on E-Business and Innovation Management Proceedings, China University of Geo-Sciences, Wuhan, Peoples Republic of China, 31 May- 1 June, 2008.

Entrepreneurial led Family Business Development in Post-War Lebanon, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference Proceedings, San Antonio, TX January 10-12, 2008, CD-ROM.

Family and Cultural Forces Impacting Entrepreneurship in Lebanon. United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference Proceedings, San Antonio, TX January 10-12, 2008, CD-ROM.

Innovate Now: Building an Innovation Talent Pool White paper prepared for Innovate Now Illinois Collaboration, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, October, 2007.

Family and Cultural Factors Impacting Entrepreneurship in Post War Lebanon, International Council for Small Business, Annual Conference Proceedings, Turku, Finland, June 14-15, 2007.

Environmental Uncertainty, Gestation Activities and Firm Emergence, International Council for Small Business, Annual Conference Proceedings, Turku, Finland, June 14-15, 2007.

Entrepreneurship during Wartime: Cultural Forces Shaping Enterprise Development in Lebanon, The 6th Wuhan International Conference on E-Business Innovation Management Proceedings, China University of Geo-Sciences, Wuhan, Peoples Republic of China, 26-27 May 2007.

Business Commitment vs. Family Commitment in Family-Owned Businesses: Does Success Change the Balance? United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference Proceedings, Orlando, FL, January 11-14, 2007, CD-ROM.

Selected Workshops, Seminars, and Presentations, 2007-08

Family Business Roundtable: What Family Businesses Want and what Private Equity Has to Offer Them - The Nass BSC Case, Middle East Private Equity Conference, Middle East Economic Digest, Dubai, UAE, 16, January, 2008.

Family Business Masterclass: Wealth Management Strategies to Ensure Long Term Growth, Middle East Economic Digest, Dubai, UAE, 14, January, 2008.

Innovation across Campus: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Entrepreneurship Education at IIT, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference Proceedings, San Antonio, TX January 10-12, 2008, CD-ROM.

Capturing Value with the Innovation Scorecard, Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL, 6 December, 2007.

Strategic Advocacy: Practicing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in a Dynamic Ecosystem, Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network Workshop, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, October 20, 2007.

Sustaining Strategic Innovation: Mindset, Mapping, and Marketbusting, Comarch Information Technology & AGH Technical University, Krakow, Poland, 18, June, 2007.