Jill R. Kickul is the Director of the Stewart Satter Program in Entrepreneurship in the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies  at New York University Stern School of Business.  In her faculty  position, Professor Kickul teaches courses in both entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. Her primary research areas of interest include innovation and strategic processes within new ventures, micro-financing practices and wealth creation in transitioning economies, and more recently, social entrepreneurship.  Professor Kickul is the author of Entrepreneurship Strategy: Changing Patterns in New Venture Creation, Growth, and Reinvention (Sage Publishing).

Professor Kickul has published more than 70 publications in entrepreneurship and management journals, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Decision Sciences, Journal of Innovative Education, and the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal. 

Before joining NYU, Dr. Kickul was the Richard A. Forsythe Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Thomas C. Page Center for Entrepreneurship at Miami University (Ohio) and a Professor in the Management Department in the Farmer School of Business. Prior to joining the Miami University faculty, she was the Elizabeth J. McCandless Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Simmons School of Management.  She has also taught entrepreneurship internationally for the Helsinki School of Economics and for the International Bank of Asia (Hong Kong MBA Program), and has delivered research seminars at the Stockholm School of Economics, the EM Lyon School of Business, the Aarhus Center for Organizational Renewal and Evolution (CORE, Denmark), and the Jönköping International Business School (Sweden).

She has been awarded the Cason Hall & Company Publishers Best Paper Award, Michael J. Driver Best Careers Paper, the Coleman Foundation Best Empirical Paper, “John Jack” Award for Entrepreneurship Education, and the Internationalizing Entrepreneurship Education and Training (IntEnt) Best Paper.  Her work on entrepreneurship education development and curriculum design (Simmons School of Management) has been nationally recognized and supported through the Coleman Foundation Entrepreneurship Excellence in Teaching Colleges Grant and was been named by Fortune Small Business as one of the Top 10 Innovative Programs in Entrepreneurship Education.  Dr. Kickul has held a number of leadership positions in various well-respected entrepreneurship and management associations.  She has served as Chair of the 2008 Internationalizing Entrepreneurship Education and Training (18^th Annual Global IntEnt Conference), Co-Chair of AOM Teaching Theme Committee (Academy-wide) for the past three years, President of the Midwest Academy of Management, Chair of the Individual Entrepreneurship division of USASBE, Chair of the inaugural USASBE Case Competition, and Chair of the Teaching Committee for the AOM Entrepreneurship division. Dr. Kickul also participates on a number of boards/organizations, most notably the European Microfinance Network (EMN) and is a Faculty Affiliate within the Center for Gender and Organizations (CGO).