Andrew Corbett is the Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, former Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division, and currently the Faculty Director for the Butler Institute for Free Enterprise through Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He is an editor for the Journal of Business Venturing, and the Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth book series. Professor Corbett also holds an appointment as a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at Nord University Business School in Bodo, Norway, and is currently the Larry and Eris Field Family Visiting Scholar at Baruch College in New York City.
In 2021, the Stanford University-Elsevier BV Report noted for the second year in a row Professor Corbett's research and citations ranked him as one of the Top 3% of researchers in the world across all disciplines. A recent study in the Journal of Small Business Management also noted that his research impact earned him a spot on the list of Top 25 Entrepreneurship Researchers in the World.
Professor Corbett's primary areas of emphasis are corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial leadership, entrepreneurial cognition, and entrepreneurship education. More specifically, his research examines behavioral aspects of the entrepreneurial process, including the leadership role of individuals within strategic renewal and innovations efforts within organizations. His research has appeared in scholarly outlets including Harvard Business Review; the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Business Venturing; Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal; Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice; Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy, and many others. He received the Babson College Research Award in 2019 for his significant achievements in both scholarly and practitioner research. He is an often quoted expert for media outlets including Forbes, Entrepreneurship Magazine, NPR, and others.
In 2020, Entrepreneurship (5th edition, Wiley), a textbook he co-authored with other senior Babson faculty was released. His latest scholarly book, Entrepreneurial Orientation: Epistemological, Theoretical & Empirical Perspectives (Emerald), was published in late 2021. Professor Corbett is also the co-author of Beyond the Champion: Institutionalizing Innovation through People (Stanford University Press) which examines how large organizations need to design roles and careers for their people in order to achieve optimal innovation performance.
As an educator Professor Corbett primarily focuses on graduate courses but he has taught across the entire curriculum. In addition to teaching feasibility, business planning, and marketing for entrepreneurs, his extensive, practical experience finds him consulting and teaching to corporate clients across the globe. He is one of the lead educator's in Babson's world renowned Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators, a program that trains educators and administrators how to teach entrepreneurship. Professor Corbett has been recognized for his excellence in teaching on both the undergraduate, graduate, and executive education levels on numerous occasions. Nationally, he has also been awarded the McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award by the Academy of Management.
Professor Corbett serves the Babson community in numerous ways but most notably within the Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, where he assists with strategic direction and the mentoring of young entrepreneurs. He was most recently named as the Faculty Director for the Butler Institute for Free Enterprise through Entrepreneurship where he is a building programming and research that examines the intersection entrepreneurship and macro level policy issues. Within the larger academic community, he has led or been a member of over a dozen committees or task forces for the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management most recently serving as the co-chair of the Doctoral Consortium. He is also a Trustee of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.
Before to Babson, Professor Corbett was MBA Director, Associate Professor, and Faculty Director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship at the Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has also taught at the University of Colorado and Bentley University. Prior to working in academia he spent over a decade in marketing, sales, and strategic management positions within the media and publishing industries.