Julio O. DeCastro has been named the Lewis Family Distinguished Professor at Babson. Previously, he was associate dean of research and professor of strategy and entrepreneurship management at Instituto de Empresa, in Madrid, Spain, and associate professor of organizational management at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

DeCastro teaches in the areas of strategy and entrepreneurship. His research examines entrepreneurial and cross-cultural aspects of firm management and strategy; in particular, he examines the characteristics of the process of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial failure and exits, the nature of entrepreneurship among women and Hispanics, and the nature of the entrepreneurial process in micro-enterprises. Additionally, his research focuses on the process of privatization of state-owned enterprises, and the nature of the process of technology transfer and its effects on new venture creation from the perspective of the firm and its strategy, with a particular interest in less developed and former Communist countries.

DeCastro has consulted for a number of firms, both domestically and internationally, and his work has been published in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Journal of High Technology management Research, among others.

He has served on the board of governors of the Academy of Management, is the president of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, has served on the Academy of Management Journal's editorial board, is associate editor of The Journal of Small Business Management, and serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Management Studies, Revista de Empresa, Management Research, The Journal of High Technology Management Research, Journal of World Business, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.