Fresh starts: Arnold Cooper on entrepreneurship and wealth creation

This is the third contribution to our Crosstalk series, a collaboration between The Executive and European Management Journal created to encourage dialogue and exchange of ideas among leading management scholars in North America and Europe. Crosstalk spans the two journals, and the content of each journal complements, rather than duplicates, that of the other. In this Crosstalk, Arnold Cooper from the U.S. and Sue Birley from the U.K. discuss their contributions to the field, as well as their thoughts on the future of the field of entrepreneurship. Arnold C. Cooper is the Louis A. Weil, Jr., Professor of Management at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University. Recognized as one of the pioneering scholars in entrepreneurship, Dr. Cooper received his DBA from Harvard Business School and has contributed to the field for over 30 years. He received the 1987 Distinguished Scholar Award from the international Council of Small Business, the 1997 international Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (a $50,000 prize, which he donated to scholarships at Purdue), and numerous best paper awards. He has served as a member of the faculty or visiting scholar at Harvard, Stanford, IMD, Manchester Business School, and the Wharton School. He is a member of the Academy of Management's Society of Fellows, and served as chair of the Business Policy and Strategy Division in 1978-79. He has won five teaching awards from Purdue, the 1999 Richard D. Irwin Outstanding Educator Award, and the 1993 Coleman Entrepreneurship Mentor Award. He was also the major professor for five doctoral students who wrote award-winning dissertations.