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Peter Klein to deliver the 2010 Sherlock Hibbs Distinguished Lecture in Business and Economics

Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and the Financial Crisis: Lessons from the Austrian School

Sept. 24, 2010
2-3:30 p.m.
205 Cornell Hall

Peter G. Klein
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri

Peter G. Klein is associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Division of Applied Social Sciences and associate professor of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri and director of the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. He is also adjunct professor of strategy and management at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and senior faculty fellow at the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute.

His research focuses on the economics of organization, entrepreneurship, and corporate strategy, with applications to diversification, innovation, food and agriculture, economic growth and vertical coordination.

He is author or editor of four books and author of over fifty scholarly articles. His work has appeared in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Rand Journal of Economics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Organization Studies, and other academic and practitioner outlets.

He teaches undergraduate, master's, doctoral and executive courses in strategy, entrepreneurship, managerial economics, the economics of institutions and organizations, and Austrian and evolutionary economics. He taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, Washington University's Olin School of Business, the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business and the Copenhagen Business School.

In 2000–01, he served as Senior Economist for Industrial Organization and Regulation with the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Klein received his Ph.D. in economics in 1995 from the University of California, Berkeley, and did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The Sherlock Hibbs Distinguished Lecture in Business and Economics

Sponsored by TCoB's six faculty members who hold named positions endowed by Sherlock Hibbs: Allen Bluedorn, Tom Dougherty, Steve Ferris, Richard Johnson, Marsha Richins and Lisa Scheer

Posted Sept. 17, 2010