Mark Pruett

Focused on decisions.

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An astonishingly American tale
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Putin's Boys: Propaganda, Counterintelligence
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OVERVIEW    

Collegial, forward-looking, passionate about international topics and history.  Core areas are strategy, international business, management principles, entrepreneurship.  Created courses on creativity, managing change, technology/innovation, study-abroads and overseas teaching, and others.

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SCHOLARLY EXPERIENCE
Article58 Research   Decision-making, disinformation, and other research, 2018-forward
Guest lectures at   Chalmers U., Partille Coll., Peder Skrivares: Grad seminar, strategy, entrep, leadership, on frequent business trips to Sweden, 2015-forward
Assoc Prof, Mgmt   U. of S. Carolina Upstate, 2010-15
Asst Prof, Mgmt   Appalachian State U.  Co-founder entrepreneurship center, cross-campus, new minor + concentration, multiple new courses, 2003-10
Annual winter faculty (Austria)   Vorarlberg U. of Appl. Sci, Dornbirn.  December ’06, ‘08, ’09, intensive entrepreneurship courses
Visiting then Asst Prof, Mgmt   George Mason U.  1998-2003.  Multiple new courses, FBI Academy speaker, course professor in Senior Executive Service pgm for Dept. of Defense
Post-doc + visiting lecturer   U. of Illinois

 

VENTURES
International consultant
  • Wrote 36 feasibility studies for CEOs worldwide
  • BWI/International Exec. Service Corps
  • Joint Venture Fund
  • Trade & investment: Dom. Rep., Honduras
Founder   Eagleblade (Sweden-tech R&D), G&P Pictures (film studio), Hydro-Motive (water sculptures)
VP, acctg/fin: land development
EDUCATION
PhD   Business Administration (Strategic management, POM minor)  U. of Illinois
MBA, BSBA   U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill