Yong Li

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I am a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship. My teaching, research and consulting focus on entrepreneurship, strategy and international business.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

Professor and Lee Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2019-present

Research Director, Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2019-present

Assistant/Associate Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006-2018

Academic Director, Entrepreneurship Academy, SUNY Buffalo, 2012-2015

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, 2006

Major concentration: Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Minor concentration: International business

Dissertation Title: Corporate Venture Capital Investment Decisions

Over the years, I have learned a great deal from faculty at Illinois: Rajshree Agarwal, Ruth Aguilera, Tailan Chi, Glenn Hoetker, Huseyin Leblebici, Joseph Mahoney (Dissertation advisor), Steve Michael, and Anju Seth, among others.

 

MBA, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2000

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Venture capital, crowdfunding, innovation, international strategy, corporate strategy

TEACHING INTERESTS

Entrepreneurship, Strategy, International business

EDITORIAL BOARDS

 

Co-Editor, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2023-

Editorial boards, Academy of Management Journal

Academy of Management Review

Journal of Business Venturing

Journal of International Business Studies

HONORS AND AWARDS

Research
SMS Paper Prize Finalist, 2023
IACMR Best Macro Paper, 2021
Finalist, GSJ Best Paper Prize, 2021
New State of the Art Research, Strategic Management Society, 2020
Finalist, Carolyn Dexter Award, Academy of Management, 2010
Finalist, 3rd Israel Strategy Conference Best Paper Award, 2010


Teaching
Best Case Award in Strategy and General Management, The Case Centre, 2022
Best-Seller Award, The Case Centre, 2017, 2021
Teachers Rated as Excellent, 2004. University of Illinois

Service
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Review, 2022

TEACHING

Courses taught:

o   Undergraduate

o   Strategic Management, MGO403

o   *New Venture Creation, UE149, an Entrepreneurship Academy course

o   MBA/Masters

o   New Venture Feasibility, MGT709, MBA

o   New Venture Creation, MGT710, MBA

o   *Technology Entrepreneurship, MGO665, MBA and Masters (Engineering, sciences, med, law, et al.)

o   *Entrepreneurship Lab (eLab), MGO663/MGO463, a credit-bearing seed-funding program

o   PhD

o   *Seminar in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, MGO796

          

            * newly developed

 

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION 

 

Yong Li

Lee Business School

University of Nevada Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Box 456034

Las Vegas, NV 89154
(702) 895-1286
yong.li@unlv.edu

www.dryongli.com