John Sibley Butler
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John Sibley Butler holds The Gale Chair in Entrepreneurship and Small Business in the Graduate School of Business (Department of Management) at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Institute for Innovation and Creativity (IC²). IC² has as its research laboratory The Austin Technology Incubator. This incubator, founded in 1989 by George Kozmetsky, has graduated 60 companies including five that have gone public. The Incubator has helped these businesses create more than 2,000 jobs and generate over $900 million in revenue. IC² Institute of The University of Texas at Austin is a unique non-traditional center for research and educational excellence. The Institute is engaged in a quest for constructive forms of capitalism that will allow communities and nations to grow and prosper. To realize this vision IC² combines technology, entrepreneurship and education to improve the world by creating wealth and sharing prosperity. His research is in the areas of organizational behavior and new venture development. His research appears in professional journals and books. For the last eight summers Professor Butler has occupied the Distinguished Visiting Professor position at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo Japan.

Professor Butler has served as a consultant for many firms and the U.S. Military. At this time he is Management Consultant for State Farm Insurance Companies, with Corporate Headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois. He is also one of the distinguished professors who composed the Advisory Team of Governor George Bush's 2000 Presidential Campaign. His books and monographs include: Framework for Research on Leadership, Cohesion and Values, Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americas: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics, All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way (With Charles C. Moskos — Winner of the Washington Monthly Best Book Award), and Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship: The Continuous Rebirth of American Communities (with George Kozmetsky, Forthcoming).

Professor Butler received his undergraduate education from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is a decorated Vietnam Veteran.

Professor Butler was appointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President George W. Bush in 2003.

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