Jeffrey Pollack

Bio

Jeff Pollack is a professor in the NC State Poole College of Management. He received his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University, his master’s in organizational communication at NC State University, and his doctorate in management at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Over the past 15 years, Jeff has accumulated a variety of entrepreneurial experiences from working in small family-owned firms, to buying and selling businesses, to investing in businesses. These experiences shape his perspective on research in the domain of entrepreneurship.

Jeff’s research has been published in journals including Academy of Management Journal, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Family Business Review, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, and Journal of Leadership Studies.

Jeff has taught courses, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, on entrepreneurship, business opportunity analysis and planning, new venture creation, social entrepreneurship, organizational design, industrial and organizational psychology, organizational behavior, and public speaking.

Meet Professor Jeffrey Pollack

Area(s) of Expertise

Entrepreneurship, Mindsets, Business Pitches, Crowdfunding, Resilience, Goal Setting

Publications

• Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility , Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2023)
• Winning the opportunity to pitch: Piquing startup investors’ interest by sending the right signals in executive summaries , Business Horizons (2023)
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work? , Psychological Bulletin (2022)
• A systematic review of growth mindset intervention implementation strategies , Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2022)
• An agentic perspective of resourcefulness: Self-reliant and joint resourcefulness behaviors within the entrepreneurship process , JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING (2022)
• Capturing passion expressed in text with artificial intelligence (AI): Affective passion waned, and identity centrality was sustained in social ventures , Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2022)
• The relationship of self-efficacy with entrepreneurial success: A meta-analytic replication and extension , Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2022)
• The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs’ transition into entrepreneurship , Journal of Small Business Management (2022)
• A behavioral insights approach to recruiting entrepreneurs for an academic study during the COVID-19 pandemic , Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2021)
• Entrepreneurial Team Diversity and Productivity: The Role of Family Relationships in Nascent Ventures , ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE (2021)