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东北大学95周年校庆之创新创业系列学术报告

[发布时间]:2018-06-15

Prof.Stephen Zhang isworking at University of Sydney. Stephen’s research program focuses on entrepreneurs and top management teams of new ventures and SMEs. This research program seeks to answer questions such as how founders, CEOs, top management teams, and other key strategic leaders shape their companies. The results of this research program can help to predict which kinds of entrepreneurs and top management help or hinder certain aspects of their companies during certain stages. He has published several articles in top journals per lists of Financial Times, ABDC, and ERA. Such research has also drawn wide interest, giving Stephen opportunities to raise more than US$1.4 million of grants in several countries. With the support of World Bank and Chilean Ministry of Economy, Stephen founded the Center for Entrepreneurial Strategy Under Uncertainty in Catholic University of Chile, which ranks #1 in South America. Stephen received his Bachelor Degree at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore. Prior to his academic career, Stephen gained experiences in several industries including engineering, management consultant, market research, project evaluation as well as founding new ventures. Stephen teaches entrepreneurship with an action-based approach. This approach has generated many entrepreneurs with highly scalable businesses, and Stephen has been rated consistently as the best professor for his entrepreneurship course in the master program.