Daniel Lerner

Dan’s work is informed by business and personal experience. His current research interests involve entrepreneurial action and outcomes – bridging psychology, organizational behavior and strategy. He has received various teaching recognitions, as well as research awards. Dan has published in leading scientific journals including: Journal of Business Venturing; Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice; Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal; Academy of Management Annals; Academy of Management Review; Academy of Management Perspectives; Small Business Economics; Journal of Business Venturing Insights; and others. He also serves on the editorial review boards of a number of the aforementioned journals. Prior to completing a PhD, he was involved with various start-ups, consulting, and industry studies.

Academic Background

• Ph.D. in Strategic, Organizational & Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Colorado (Boulder, USA)

• Honors Bachelor Degree in Psychology with Certificate (Minor) in Business and MBA course-work, University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA)

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, IE University, 2023 - Present

• Assistant Professor, IE University, 2019 - 2023

• Assistant Professor, Deusto Business School

• Instructor, University of Colorado-Boulder

• Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Greenlight Energy Inc. (USA) [start-up in renewable energy acquired for $98M]

• Power System Engineering Inc. (USA) [engineering and business consulting firm]

• Start-up entrepreneur

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Lerner, D.*, Hunt, R.*, Johnson, S., Badal, S., & Freeman, M. (2022). ”Cracks in the wall: Entrepreneurial action theory and the weakening presumption of intended rationality”. Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 37 (3) [*equal authorship]

• Van Lent, W., Hunt, R., & Lerner, D. (2022). “Historiography and the Excavation of Nascent Business Venturing”. Small Business Economics, Vol. 61(1): 285 – 303 

• Lerner, D., Alkærsig, L., Fitza, M., Lomberg, C., Johnson, S. (2021). “Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Parasite Infection is Associated with Entrepreneurial Initiation, Engagement and Performance”. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 45(1): 118 - 144. Featured in Harvard Business Review.

• Van Lent, W., Hunt, R., & Lerner, D. (2021) “Back to Which Future? On the Narrowing Effect of Narrativity in the Temporal Positioning of Entrepreneurial Action”. Academy of Management Review

• Bort, J., Wiklund, J., Crawford, GC., Lerner, D., & Hunt, R. (2023). The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

• Lerner, D., Hunt, R., & Dimov, D. (2018) “Action! Moving Beyond the Intendedly-Rational Logics of Entrepreneurship”. Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 33(1): 52 - 69

 See his Google Scholar page for additional recent research.