CWRU Entrepreneurship Alumni Speaker Series | Mike Stull, Director, IECE at CSUSB

Mike Stull

Director

Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at CSUSB

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgstull/

Dr. Mike Stull is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship (IECE) at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB).  He also serves as Chair for the Department of Management in the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration and Academic Director for the entrepreneurship program. 

With more than 30 years as an entrepreneur in for-profit, non-profit, and public sector environments that includes technology manufacturing, management consulting and regional economic development, Mike describes himself as the “living example” that entrepreneurship is a process that can be applied in any setting and he truly “thinks like an owner.” As someone who likes to challenge his students in and out of the classroom, Mike is viewed as an innovative and demanding teacher that brings the reality of entrepreneurship into the classroom. As one of his students noted “the class projects that Mike assigns, such as having to start and run a business, touch on every aspect of what it takes to be an entrepreneur. It truly is learning applied to the reality of entrepreneurship.” Due to this “hands-on” and entrepreneurial approach, Mike has been recognized with several teaching awards in the Jack H. Brown College and was a finalist for the California State University system’s highest honor for faculty, the Wang Family Excellence Award.

Directing the university’s entrepreneurship program and Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship (IECE), Mike is responsible for program & curriculum management and development, teaching entrepreneurship courses, and overseeing numerous entrepreneurial initiatives.  He has raised over $30 million in grants, contracts and sponsorship and achieved national acclaim, including ranking as the #4 graduate entrepreneurship program in the U.S. from The Princeton Review & Entrepreneur Magazine, receiving the prestigious National Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Award in 2010 from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) and selected as one of the top 35 entrepreneurship programs globally in 2017 by AACSB International. 

Beyond his role at CSUSB. Mike has served a guest business columnist for the Southern California News Group and is active as board member for several for-profit and nonprofit organizations in Southern California. From 2005 to 2009, he taught in the doctoral program at Case Western Reserve University and served as a quantitative methods advisor for students in the dissertation phase.

In addition to his academic recognitions, Mike has received numerous awards throughout his business career, including Ernst & Young (EY) Entrepreneur of the Year; Management Leader of the Year from the University of California, Riverside; and Small Business Advocate of the Year from the County of San Bernardino.

Mike holds a doctorate in management from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA/BA in Business Administration from California State University, San Bernardino. At Case Western, he served as a Fellow in the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations.