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.

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Meet Professor Jeffrey Pollack

Area(s) of Expertise

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

Publications

• 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)
• Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility , ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE (2022)
• The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs' transition into entrepreneurship , JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (2022)
• Entrepreneurial Team Diversity and Productivity: The Role of Family Relationships in Nascent Ventures , ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE (2021)
• Growth mindsets: defining, assessing, and exploring effects on motivation for entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs , CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY (2021)
• Making a Contribution to Entrepreneurship Research by Studying Crowd-Funded Entrepreneurial Opportunities , ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE (2021)
• PURSUING B CORP CERTIFICATION: EXPLORING FIRMS' ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND PROSOCIAL MOTIVATION , ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT DISCOVERIES (2021)