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of Business Venturing and Frontiers of Entrepreneurship. He has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Boston Globe, Entrepreneur, and Inc. He has consulted for major corporations, and is coauthor of several books, including Franchising and New Venture Creation, and, with Jeffry Timmons and Andrew Zacharakis, Business Plans That Work and How to Raise Capital.

Mark P. Rice is the Murata Dean of the F.W. Olin School of Business and the Jeffry A. Timmons Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College. His research on corporate innovation and entrepreneurship has been published widely in academic and practitioner journals, including Organization Science, R&D Management, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, IEEE Engineering Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, and California Management Review. Dean Rice has been a director and chairman of the National Business Incubation Association, which honored him in 1998 with its Founder's Award. He is coauthor of Radical Innovation, and, with Jana Matthews, Growing New Ventures, Creating New Jobs (Quorum, 1995).

Timothy G. Habbershon is Founding Director of the Institute for Family Enterprising at Babson College, where he holds the President's Term Chair in Family Enterprising. Additionally, he is a founding partner in the TELOS Group, providing transition and strategy consultations to large family firms worldwide. Previously, he was the founding director of family business programs in the Snider Entrepreneurship Center at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and in the Freeman Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship in the School of Business, University of South Dakota. His research on family business has appeared in such journals as Family Business Review, the Journal of Business Venturing, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He also has a regular column-Family, Inc.-in BusinessWeek's Small Biz magazine, and teaches regularly in executive education programs and presents at conferences in the U.S. and internationally.