Art Sherwood
Arthur Lloyd "Art" Sherwood is an American professor of entrepreneurship. He is the David Cole Professor of Entrepreneurship at Western Washington University (WWU).
Sherwood attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison for a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and Indiana University Bloomington for his MBA and PhD in business.[1] He was given a teaching award from Indiana University in 2000 and completed his doctoral program in 2002.[2][3] He later became a professor of management at Indiana State University.[4]
In 2013, Western Washington University alumnus David W. Cole, a retired vice president at Microsoft, endowed the David Cole Professorship of Entrepreneurship within the WWU College of Business and Economics.[5][6] Sherwood was hired the next year.[7] He gave a TEDx talk at WWU in 2015, in which he posited that the intersection between wealth and social health—coined whealth—is attainable.[8]
He has published on the "entrepreneurship ecosystem" and the role of higher education institutions within it.[9]
References
- ↑ "Dr. Arthur Sherwood" (LinkedIn profile). LinkedIn. Retrieved June 2, 2026. From: "Arthur Sherwood". College of Business and Economics. Western Washington University.
- ↑ "Trustees Teaching Award". Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs. Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved June 3, 2026.
- ↑ Sherwood, Arthur Lloyd (2002). Acquisition of technological knowledge from alliance partners: The role of the organizational knowledge interface (Dissertation). Indiana University – via ProQuest.
- ↑ "Sycamore Business Advisors program honored for innovation". News. Indiana State University. September 30, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2026.
- ↑ Primary sources:
- "WWU alumnus David Cole's gift to kick-start new entrepreneurship program". WWU News. Western Washington University. August 22, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2026.
- Nerad, Jennifer (March 30, 2026). "The first 50 years of the College of Business and Economics". WWU News. Western Washington University. Retrieved June 3, 2026. See: "CBE's 50th anniversary". College of Business and Economics.
- ↑ Secondary sources:
- "With gift, WWU plans to hire professor of entrepreneurship". The Bellingham Business Journal. August 22, 2013. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved June 2, 2026.
- Long, Katherine (August 22, 2013). "Gift to WWU will create entrepreneurship minor". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 3, 2026.
- ↑ "The storytelling team". The ESP. Western Washington University. Retrieved June 3, 2026 – via Google Sites.
- ↑ Sherwood, Art (June 19, 2015). "Re-imagining whealth". TEDx Talks. Retrieved June 2, 2026 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Sherwood, Art (2018). "Universities and the entrepreneurship ecosystem". In Globerman, Steven; Clemens, Jason (eds.). Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the Effects of an Aging Population. Fraser Institute. pp. 239–282. ISBN 978-0-88975-486-7.
External links
- Arthur Sherwood – College of Business and Economics, Western Washington University