Robert D. Hisrich is the Bridgestone Chair of International Marketing and Director of the Global Management Center and International Programs at the College of Business Administration at Kent State University. He holds a B.A. from DePauw University and an M.B.A. and PhD from the University of Cincinnati. In 2021, he was named in the top 2 percent of scientists in the world in business and economics in a survey published by Stanford University.

Professor Hisrich's research pursuits are focused on entrepreneurship and venture creation: entrepreneurial ethics, corporate entrepreneurship, women and minority entrepreneurs, venture financing, and global venture creation. He teaches courses and gives seminars in these areas. His interest in global management and entrepreneurship resulted in two Fulbright Fellowships in Budapest and Hungary, honorary degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and University of Miskolc (Hungary), and being a visiting faculty member in universities in Austria, China, Australia, Ireland, and Slovenia.

Professor Hisrich serves on the editorial boards of several prominent journals in entrepreneurial scholarship, is on several boards of directors, and is author or coauthor of over 300 research articles appearing in journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Review, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Professor Hisrich has authored or coauthored 45 books or their editions, including Entrepreneurial Marketing, Entrepreneurial Finance, Effective Entrepreneurial Management, Small Business Solutions, International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing and Managing a Global Venture (3rd edition), and Technology Entrepreneurship: Value Creation, Protection, and Capture (2nd edition).

PART 1: THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 1: The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set
Chapter 2: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Chapter 3: Generating and Exploiting New Entries

PART 2: FROM IDEA TO THE OPPORTUNITY
Chapter 4: Creativity and the Business Idea
Chapter 5: Identifying and Analyzing Domestic and International Opportunities
Chapter 6: Protecting the Idea and Other Legal Issues for the Entrepreneur

PART 3: FROM THE OPPORTUNITY TO THE BUSINESS PLAN
Chapter 7: The Business Plan: Creating and Starting the Venture
Chapter 8: The Marketing Plan
Chapter 9: The Organizational Plan
Chapter 10: The Financial Plan

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ART 4: FROM THE BUSINESS PLAN TO FUNDING THE VENTURE
Chapter 11: Sources of Capital
Chapter 12: Informal Risk Capital, Venture Capital, and Going Public

PART 5: FROM FUNDING THE VENTURE TO LAUNCHING, GROWING, AND ENDING THE NEW VENTURE
Chapter 13: Strategies for Growth and Managing the Implications of Growth
Chapter 14: Accessing Resources for Growth from External Sources
Chapter 15: Succession Planning and Strategies for Harvesting and Ending the Venture

PART 6: CASES<