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Sharon F. Matusik
Sharon Matusik is the Dean and at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. She grew up in the Chicago area. A first-generation college student, she graduated with honors from Colby College in Waterville Maine. After working in employee benefits consulting for Hewitt Associates, she completed her PhD in strategic management from the Foster School of Business. She served on the faculty at Rice University before moving to the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2004, where she served as Academic Research Director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship. She rose through the ranks to become Professor in the Leeds School in 2014. In 2016, Matusik was named interim Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, and in 2017, she was appointed Interim Dean at the Leeds School of business, subsequently permanent Dean.

Research
Matusik’s research focuses on understanding the knowledge-intensive firm and the contribution of firm knowledge to competitive advantage in strategic management entrepreneurship. Matusik and Hill (1998) examined the role of “contingent workers” in knowledge flows that affect competitive advantage of a firm – temporary employees, independent contractors; workers at outsourcing firms, contract workers on site at a firm, consultants, etc. Reliance on contingent workers can stimulate information flows inside a firm by causing firms to codifify of tacit knowledge inside the firm, but also puts the firm at risk of having its special expertise appropriated. Matusik has studied entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem, such as the role of “offensive” and “defensive” patents in the pricing of initial public offerings, the role played by venture capitalists in the success or failure of startup firms.

Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado
As Dean of the Leeds School of Business, Matusik’s End the Gap has promoted the equal participation of women in business and business leadership and collaboration between the Leeds School of Business and the University of Colorado’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She has focused the programs at the Leeds School of Business on developing skills demanded by “high growth ventures” that are beyond the startup phase and rapidly scaling up operations “scale up” firms that Under her leadership and that of her predecessor, the Leeds School of Business has improved dramatically in academic research as measured by the University of Texas-Dallas business research rankings and has improved steadily in programmatic rankings and recognition for academic excellence in entrepreneurship by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.

Press Links
1. 	https://blog.foster.uw.edu/management-and-organization-alumni-highlight-sharon-matusik/

2. 	https://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/21/cu-boulder-sharon-matusik-interim-dean-leeds-school-business/

3. 	https://www.dailycamera.com/2017/05/30/sharon-matusik-named-dean-of-cu-boulders-leeds-school-of-business/

4. 	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCUZOK8cCF2OfcKNtH8RFjA

5. 	https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/06/05/cu-boulder-breaks-ground-on-long-awaited-biz-engineering-college-connector/

6. 	https://www.colorado.edu/business/news/2019/10/09/leeds-deming-center-wins-global-award-entrepreneurship-education

7. 	https://jindal.utdallas.edu/the-utd-top-100-business-school-research-rankings/

8. 	https://www.gcec2019.com/