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Andrew Hardin is the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Professor Hardin’s research is focused on organizational collaboration and virtual work, technology management, technology mediated financial decision making, and research methodologies. His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, DATABASE, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, Small Group Research, Group Decision and Negotiations, and Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising. Hardin was recently recognized as the UNLV College of Business researcher of the year and currently serves as Senior Editor for the Information Systems Journal, and DATABASE, Associate Editor for the European Journal of Information Systems, and Guest Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly.

In his current role as Director of the UNLV Center for Entrepreneurship, Dr. Hardin acts as liaison between UNLV and the community, interacting regularly with community members wishing to participate in university curricular activities. He also coordinates the implementation of new programs associated with the CFE; most recently the implementation of a $500,000 donor financed student run venture capital fund program. Hardin also coordinates the community and student based Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition, securing over $80,000 in cash and in-kind prizes for the 2011 competition alone. More recently, Hardin developed a cross-disciplinary graduate level entrepreneurship course involving students from both the College of Engineering and the College of Business. This course is the first of its kind at UNLV, and requires MBA students to develop business plans based upon technologies developed by the College of Engineering, with the goal of competing in both intra- and inter-state business plan competitions. Recently Hardin acted as faculty advisor for the grand prize winner of the 2011 Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition, and the first and second prize winners of the 2011 statewide Governor’s Cup Competition.

Professor Hardin received his Ph.D. at Washington State University, and also holds both a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the California State University. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, the Association of Information Systems, and is a member of prominent boards such as the Nevada Council on Economic Education, and is a voting member of the UNLV Intellectual Property Committee. Hardin is a regular speaker at industry events such as a recent keynote address at a Microsoft Licensing Roundtable conference. Dr. Hardin has extensive industry experience, including several senior management positions such as Materials Coordinator on a $77 million heavy crude expansion project for Texaco Refining and Marketing. He also founded and successfully ran several small businesses. Hardin has been nominated for several teaching awards, is the graduate coordinator for the MBA New Venture Management concentration, and teaches MBA courses on new venture creation and feasibility. Hardin also teaches courses on information technology innovation in the COB Executive MBA program. He has extensive experience in curriculum development having prepared and taught over a dozen on campus and online courses.