John Butler
November 2 and 9, 2020
Sessions:
November 2: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Leading Change in Society
November 9: Impact on Small and Minority Firms
John Sibley Butler holds the J. Marion West Chair for Constructive Capitalism in the Graduate School of Business (Department of Management) at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the management department and holds a joint appointment in organizational behavior in the College of Liberal Arts, where he holds the Darrell K. Royal Regents Professorship in Ethics and American Society (Sociology). His research is in the areas of Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship/New Ventures.
His research appears in professional journals and books. He is the Sam Barshop Fellow at The IC2 Institute, an organization dedicated to the creation of new ventures throughout the world. For the last seven years, Professor Butler has occupied the Distinguished Visiting Professor position at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, where he lectured on new venture start-ups and general entrepreneurship. This past year, he was named as a distinguished Libra Professorship at The University of Southern Maine. 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. In this connection, he has given lectures on general management issues of corporate America. He is also one of the distinguished professors who composed the Economic Advisory Team of Governor George Bush’s 2000 Presidential Campaign.
His books include “Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black America: 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); “Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship: The Continuous Rebirth of American Communities” (with George Kozmetsky, forthcoming); and, “Forgotten Citations: Studies in Community, Entrepreneurship, and Self-Help Among Black-Americans” (with Patricia Gene Greene and Margaret Johnson, forthcoming). Butler received his undergraduate education from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.