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Three Business Professors and the Innovators They Inspired How educators are influencing a new generation of entrepreneurs

By Ericka Chickowski

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The Professor: Ed Roberts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Ed Roberts
• Professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship and strategic management and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center

• Bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, a master's of science in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a doctorate in economics from MIT

• Co-founder of about 10 companies, on the board of about 20 companies and investor in more than 40 firms

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