Ben Hallen is the Neal and Jan Dempsey Endowed Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. A former entrepreneur, his research focuses on the acceleration and scaling of businesses, including through venture finance and artificial intelligence. He has published in many of his field’s top journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and for practitioners at Harvard Business Review Online. He is currently an associate editor at Strategic Management Journal. For his teaching, he has been named by Poets & Quants as one of “Best 40 Under 40 Professors” amongst global MBA faculty and has received the “Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching” at Foster. At Foster he helped launch the MS in Entrepreneurship, the Creative Destruction Lab course, and created a popular course on “Strategies for Scaling and Funding Businesses”. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a masters in computer science from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, where he previously served on the advisory board of Stanford Technologies Venture Program.
