Ronald K Mitchell

Dr. Ronald K. Mitchell is a professor of entrepreneurship in the University of Victoria Faculty of Business, is Head of the Entrepreneurship Program, and holds the Francis G. Winspear Chair in Public Policy and Business. He is also a jointly appointed Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Strategy at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, in Beijing, PRC. Before becoming a professor, Dr. Mitchell spent 14 years managing and leading enterprises that have varied in...See more

Dr. Ronald K. Mitchell is a professor of entrepreneurship in the University of Victoria Faculty of Business, is Head of the Entrepreneurship Program, and holds the Francis G. Winspear Chair in Public Policy and Business. He is also a jointly appointed Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Strategy at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, in Beijing, PRC. Before becoming a professor, Dr. Mitchell spent 14 years managing and leading enterprises that have varied in size from small to very large business, and practiced as a Certified Public Accountant in the USA. He is the recipient of the 1994 University of Victoria MBA Teaching Award for Real World Relevance, the 1995 Academy of Management Edgar F. Heizer Award for Outstanding Research in the Field of New Enterprise Development, the 1997 University of Victoria Faculty of Business Distinguished Educator Award, and the 1999 Best Article Award sponsored by California Management Review and presented by the International Association for Business and Society, at their annual meeting in Paris, 1999, and is listed in Who's Who in Canadian Business, 2002. He is the co designer of the fully integrated entrepreneurship program at the University of Victoria that has won the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division 1999 Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award, and the US Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship model undergraduate program award 2000. See less