Daniel Forbes

Associate Professor
Carlson, Strategic Mgmt/Organization
3-414 CarlSMgmt
612/625-2989
forbe010@umn.edu

Biography
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Daniel Forbes is an Associate Professor in the Strategic Management & Organization department at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. His research focuses on how people make decisions in the course of building and managing organizations, especially in the context of new ventures and emerging industries. He teaches courses on strategy and entrepreneurship. He received his Ph.D. from the NYU Stern School of Business.

"The study of emerging industries: Recognizing and responding to some central problems," with David Kirsch, Journal of Business Venturing (2011).

"Financing decisions as a source of conflict in venture boards," with Audrey Korsgaard & Harry Sapienza, Journal of Business Venturing (2010).

"Reconsidering the strategic implications of decision comprehensiveness," Academy of Management Review (2007).

"Cognitive approaches to new venture creation," in P. Davidsson (Ed.), New Firm Startups (1999, reprinted 2006)

"Entrepreneurial team formation: An exploration of new member addition," with Pat Borchert, Mary Zellmer-Bruhn & Harry Sapienza, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2006).

"Managerial determinants of decision speed in new ventures," Strategic Management Journal (2005).

"Are some entrepreneurs more overconfident than others?", Journal of Business Venturing (2005).

"The self-determination motive and entrepreneurs' choice of financing," with Harry Sapienza & Audrey Korsgaard, in J.Katz & D. Shepherd (Eds.), Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth (2003).

"Cognition and corporate governance: Understanding boards of directors as strategic decision-making groups," with Frances Milliken, Academy of Management Review (1999).

"Measuring the unmeasurable: Empirical studies of nonprofit organization effectiveness from 1977 to 1997," Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (1998).