Dr. Jeff Cornwall
Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship
Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship
Professor of Management
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 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 web log site, 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.
