Jeffry Timmons Appointed Chair, International Academic Steering Committee; National Entrepreneurship Research Center; School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Wellesley, Mass…Babson College Entrepreneurship Professor *Jeffry Timmons has been appointed Chair, International Academic Steering Committee; National Entrepreneurship Research Center at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China.  Timmons is the Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., USA.

As Chair, Timmons is responsible for providing the Center’s strategic vision. He will also garner international cooperation, develop Entrepreneurial research initiatives, and represent the Center at global conferences on Entrepreneurship research. 

Dr. Timmons is known internationally for his research, innovative curriculum development, and teaching in entrepreneurship, new ventures, entrepreneurial finance, and venture capital. In 1995 he was named the first Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Dr. Timmons' friends and supporters endowed the Jeffry A. Timmons Professorship in the mid-1990s in recognition of his contributions to Babson and to the field of entrepreneurship.

Babson College is the top-ranked business school in the world for entrepreneurship education.  Timmons takes seriously the business school’s mission to inspire entrepreneurial thinking and cultivate entrepreneurial leadership in any organization or society.

In 1984, Dr. Timmons collaborated with the Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies to launch the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE), aimed at improving teaching and research by teaming faculty with highly successful entrepreneurs wishing to teach. He is currently the director of that program. INC magazine called him "The Johnny Appleseed of Entrepreneurship Education" and noted that the SEE program "changed the terrain of entrepreneurship education."

He has earned a reputation for "practicing what he teaches." For nearly 30 years he has been immersed in the world of entrepreneurship as an investor, director and/or advisor in private companies and investment funds including Cellular One in Boston, New Hampshire, and Maine; the Boston Communications Group; BCI Advisors, Inc.; Spectrum Equity Investors; Internet Securities, Inc.; Chase Capital Partners; Colorkinetics and others.

His many books include the leading textbook New Venture Creation, 7th ed. (2007); Venture Capital at the Crossroads, with Babson colleague William D. Bygrave (1992); and the groundbreaking The Entrepreneurial Mind (1989).  He has co-authored Business Plans That Work (2004) and How To Raise Capital:  Techniques and Strategies for Financing and Valuing Your Small Business (2005) with Babson’s Stephen Spinelli and Andrew Zacharakis.  He has published more than 100 articles and papers in publications such as Harvard Business Review and Journal of Business Venturing, as well as numerous teaching cases.

Timmons earned an A.B., Colgate University, and M.B.A., D.B.A., Harvard University.

Related Podcasts

* To listen to a podcast interview with Dr. Timmons about his new role and Entrepreneurship Education in China, click on:  http://www3.babson.edu/newsroom/blog/customcf/babson_pr_timmons.mp3

Podcast: Prof. Robert Eng, Executive Director, Asia Institute, Babson, discusses Babson's efforts in Asia
http://www3.babson.edu/newsroom/blog/customcf/babson_pr_eng.mp3

Podcast: Provost Michael Fetters discusses Babson's efforts in China
http://www3.babson.edu/Offices/President/podcast/2006_04_20101407.cfm