Assistant Professor, Law

Assistant Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship

PhD in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management, University of Texas-Dallas

JD, University of Michigan

BA in Political Science, University of Michigan

entrepreneurship

strategy

ethics

decision-making

crisis and adverse events

Best Reviewer Award - Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division, 2024

Best Reviewer Award - Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division, 2022

Track 5 Best Paper Award - Southern Management Association, 2020

Outstanding PhD Student Teacher - University of Texas at Dallas Jindal School of Management, 2019

Safe Haven Award - Immigration Equality, 2009

Welbourne Eleazar, M. (2022). Immoral Entrenchment: How Crisis Reverses the Ethical Effects of Moral Intensity. Journal of Business Ethics. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04859-4.

Welbourne Eleazar, M. & Park, H. D. (2022). Who Will Stay When Crisis Strikes? Venture Capitalist Threat-Defiant Learning Response to Ventures in Crisis. Academy of Management Journal.

Kim, J., Welbourne Eleazar, M., & Lee, S. (2024). The influence of media scrutiny on firms’ strategic eschewal of lobbying. Strategic Management Journal. 45 (11) pp. 2340-2367.

Chen, L., Welbourne Eleazar, M., Lee, S., & Islam, H. A. (2024). Overcoming the liability of patenting in early-stage ventures with market orientation. Industry and Innovation.

Peng, M. W., Wang, J. C., Kathuria, N., Shen, J., & Welbourne Eleazar, M. (2023). Toward an Institution-based paradigm. Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

Welbourne Eleazar, M. (2006). The Environmental Justice Movement’s Response to Hurricane Katrina, A Critique: Problems Faced, Successes, Failures, and the State of the Movement One Year Later. Thurgood Marshall Law Review. 32 pp. 125-145.

"Who Will Stay When Crisis Strikes? VC Projected Event Schemas on Ventures in Crisis," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, January 2020.

"Doubling down when you should fold: Immoral entrenchment in the face of crisis," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, January 2019.

"Changing laws and ethics driving innovation in professional service firms," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, January 2017.

Welbourne Eleazar, M. (Principal Investigator). Social Impact Community Grant. Tippie College of Business. Funded. January 2025 - December 2025.

Welbourne Eleazar, M. (Principal Investigator). Research Excellence Grant. Tippie College of Business. Funded. May 2024 - May 2025.

Welbourne Eleazar, M. (Principal Investigator). OVPR Early Scholar Award. University of Iowa. Funded. January 2022 - January 2023.

Welbourne Eleazar, M.. Tippie Research Excellence Grant. Tippie College of Business. Funded. November 2021 - December 2022.

John L. Miclot Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Iowa, 2021 - 2022