Dr. Jeff Cornwall
Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship
Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship
Professor of Management
Education
D.B.A. - University of Kentucky, Management and Organization
M.B.A. - University of Kentucky, Finance
B.S. - University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Business Administration
Academic Experience
Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship, Director Center for Entrepreneurship, Professor, Belmont University
Sandra Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Department Chair, Professor, University of St. Thomas
Associate Professor 1988; Assistant Professor 1983-1988; Co-Director Center of Entrepreneurship 198, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Instructor, University of Kentucky
Professional Experience
President/CEO and Co-founder, Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems (June, 1988 - August, 1997). Company began as a series of start-up ventures that were merged into this holding company. Responsible for overall executive management of the company. Business operated a full continuum of behavioral health programs, including outpatient clinics, community based services, and residential facilities throughout North Carolina. Grew from seven to over 300
employees. Revenues over $12 million. Raised over $5 million in debt and equity financing to fund growth. Negotiated successful sale of majority of business holdings in 1996, remainder of business sold in 1998.
Recent Articles
Morris, M. H., van Vuuren, J., Cornwall, J. R. , & Scheepers, R. (2009). Properties of balance: A pendulum effect in corporate entrepreneurship. Business Horizons, 52 (5), 429-440.
Naughton, M. J. & Cornwall, J. R. (2006). The Virtue of Courage in Entrepreneurship: Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition and the Life-Cycle of the Business. Business Ethics Quarterly, 16, 71-95.
Cornwall, J. R. & Naughton, M. J. (2003). Who is the Good Entrepreneur? An Exploration within the Catholic Social Tradition. Journal of Business Ethics, 44 (1), 61-75.
Cornwall, J. R. & Naughton, M. J. (2003). Creating an Integrating Capstone for Entrepreneurship Students. Journal of the Academy of Business Education, 4, 62-67.
Recent Books
Cornwall, J. R. (2009). Bootstrapping. , Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall .
Cornwall, J. R., Vang, D. O. , & Hartman, J. M. (2009). Entrepreneurial Financial Management, 2e. , Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharp (in press).
Cornwall, J. R. & Naughton, M. (2008). Bringing Your Business to Life. , Ventura, CA: Regal .
Cornwall, J. R. (2003). From the Ground Up: Entrepreneurial School Leadership. , Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press .
Brown, R. J. & Cornwall, J. R. (2000). The Entrepreneurial Educator. , Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press .
Cornwall, J. R. & Perlman, B. (1990). Organizational Entrepreneurship. , Boston, MA: Irwin (McGraw-Hill) .
Biography
Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship at Belmont University. Previously, he was the Sandra Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Cornwall earned a D.B.A and a M.B.A . from the University of Kentucky, and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In the late 1980's, he left academics to become the Co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC. His company operated a variety of health care facilities and programs and employed over 300 people. After nine years of rapid growth, and negotiating the sale of most of the corporations' business interests, he returned to academics.
Dr. Cornwall consults with a variety of businesses on start-up and growth related issues.
His current research and teaching interests include entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial ethics. He authored or co-authored six books, Bringing Your Business to Life, Bootstrapping, Organizational Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Financial Management, The Entrepreneurial Educator, and From the Ground Up: Entrepreneurial School Leadership. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Cornwall advises E-Club and Delta Epsilon Chi, both of which serve the interests of entrepreneurs across campus.
In 2006, Dr. Cornwall was names a Fellow of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). In 2008, Belmont University's Center for Entrepreneurship received the USASBE National Model Undergraduate Program of the Year Award.
His blog, The Entrepreneurial Mind, is one of the most popular small business blogs on the web. It was named by Forbes as a "Best of the Web" and is part of the Forbes blog network. His blog is also linked to by Entrepreneur, Inc., and US News and World Report.
