Becky Reuber

Becky Reuber is an experienced researcher, teacher, and consultant in the field of entrepreneurship. She is the author of dozens of scholarly papers and the recent textbook Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective. Her research has won awards from the Academy of Management, the International Council for Small Business, the Canadian Council of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. She sits on the editorial board of several entrepreneurship journals, and is Associate Editor of Family Business Review. Two of her recent reports are Survival of the Fittest: Which SMEs Internationalize Most Extensively and Effectively? published by the Conference Board of Canada and available here, and The State of Entrepreneurship in Canada, published by Industry Canada and available here.

Becky holds a PhD in Management from Queen’s University and has held visiting academic positions at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, the University of Victoria, and the Australian National University. At the Rotman School, she teaches MBA and executive courses. She is passionate about developing entrepreneurial skills and her MBA students have won business plan prizes in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

She is an active supporter of entrepreneurial firms in Canada. She consults to public- and private-sector organizations, and has helped pick entrepreneurial award winners for a variety of organizations including Cisco Systems, the Canadian Women Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Organization of Women in International Trade. She is a member of the Toronto Board of Trade’s Access to Capital Task Force, and is a past Vice-President (Programs) of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She is a frequent commentator in the media and has just spent two years on the Business Advisory Panel of the Globe and Mail’s ReportOnBusiness.com website for entrepreneurial firms. She can be reached at reuber@rotman.utoronto.ca.