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John Sibley Butler

Professor of Management and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin.  He is Director of the IC² Institute (campus wide) and the Herb Kelleher Center (McCombs School of Business) at The University of Texas at Austin.  His research areas are organizational science, with special emphasis on innovation and technology transfer in the context of new venture development and military organizations. His books include Global Perspectives on Technology Transfer and Commercialization (with David V. Gibson, 2011), The Development of University-Based Entrepreneurship Ecosystems:  Global Practices (with Fetters, Greene and Rice, 2011), An American Story:  Mexican American Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation (with Morales and Torres, 2009) Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black-Americans:  A Reconsideration of Race and Economics (1991, 2007), All That We Can Be:  Black Leadership the Army Way (with Charles C. Moskos, 1997), Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship:  The Continuous Rebirth of American Society (with George Kozmetsky, 2004). He has published in professional journals.  He has taught in the MBA programs in Mexico, China and Japan, and has been a distinguished Visiting Professor at Babson College and Rutgers University)  He is a decorated Vietnam Veteran and received a Presidential Appointment by George W. Bush to the William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board of Directors, where he served America for six years.   He is a Board member of the LSU Alumni Association, the Morehouse Research Institute, the Boys and Girls Club of Austin, and  Glofish, Inc.   He received his undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.