Jeffrey Pollack

About

Jeffrey Pollack is the Lynn T. Clark II Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NC State's Poole College of Management. He holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, a master's in organizational communication from NC State University, and a doctorate in management from Virginia Commonwealth University. His entrepreneurial experiences range from working in small family-owned firms to buying and selling businesses and investing in ventures, which inform his research and teaching perspectives. His research has been published in prominent journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Journal of Management. His teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses on entrepreneurship, business opportunity analysis and planning, new venture creation, social entrepreneurship, organizational design, and organizational behavior. His work focuses on entrepreneurship, mindsets, business pitches, crowdfunding, resilience, and goal setting.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Medicine
• Social psychology
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Economics
• Applied psychology
• Mechanical engineering
• Psychiatry

Selected publications

• A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work?

  Psychological Bulletin · 2022 · 305 citations

  = 0.36, 95% CI [.03, .68], 95% PI [-.50, 1.22]. We conclude with a discussion of heterogeneity and the limitations of meta-analyses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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• Revising entrepreneurial action in response to exogenous shocks: Considering the COVID-19 pandemic

  Journal of Business Venturing Insights · 2020 · 302 citations

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• Passion at work: A meta‐analysis of individual work outcomes

  Journal of Organizational Behavior · 2020 · 281 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Summary Academic research on passion is much more complex than the extant literature or popular press portray. Although research on work‐related passion has progressed rapidly over the last decade, much remains unknown. We are now just beginning to recognize the different theoretical underpinnings and empirical operationalizations that work passion research has adopted, and the confusion this has generated hampers our understanding of the construct and its relationship to workplace outcomes. Acc…

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• An agentic perspective of resourcefulness: Self-reliant and joint resourcefulness behaviors within the entrepreneurship process

  Journal of Business Venturing · 2020 · 67 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• A systematic review of growth mindset intervention implementation strategies

  Social and Personality Psychology Compass · 2022-12-27 · 45 citations

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  Abstract Growth mindset interventions, which seek to teach the belief that attributes can change, are increasing in popularity and being leveraged to improve health. As these interventions expand in scope, there is a critical need for a systematic review of existing implementation practices to help move the field towards more robust, impactful, and replicable science. To meet this need, we took a three‐fold approach. First, we created a framework for the implementation of mindset interventions (…

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Frequent coauthors

• Jon C. Carr

  North Carolina State University

  20 shared

• Matthew W. Rutherford

  Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City

  17 shared

• Timothy L. Michaelis

  Northern Illinois University

  16 shared

• Jeni L. Burnette

  North Carolina State University

  13 shared

• Bradley L. Kirkman

  North Carolina State University

  9 shared

• Ernest H. O’Boyle

  9 shared

• Crystal L. Hoyt

  9 shared

• Violet T. Ho

  University of Richmond

  8 shared

Labs

• Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MIE) DepartmentPI

Education

• B.S.

  Northwestern University

Awards & honors

• Poole College Summer Funding (2022)
• Poole College Research Leadership Award (2021)
• NC State University Foundation Grant (2021)
• Poole College of Management Research Leadership Award (2021)
• Research Leadership Award: Management, Innovation, and Entre…

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