Bill Aulet

Bill Aulet is the Managing Director at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Bill Aulet is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught and practiced around the world.  Bill, who has degrees from Harvard (Engineering) and MIT (Management), has over 25 years of business success first at IBM and then as a three time entrepreneur. He has directly created hundreds of millions of dollars in shareholder value through his companies. During the past seven years he has been responsible for leading the development of entrepreneurship education across MIT, where he has been recognized with numerous awards.  His book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, which was released in August 2013, has become an international best seller due to its accessible and methodical approach to entrepreneurship. Bill writes and speaks logically on how entrepreneurs are created and the importance of both education and ecosystems.  He has been widely published in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, the Boston Globe, the Kauffman Foundation, the Huffington Post and more.  He has also been a featured speaker on shows such as CNBC’s Squawk Box and Bloomberg News as well as at events and conferences around the world. He is a board member of MITEK Systems (NASDAQ: MITK) and XL Hybrids Inc. (Private). In addition to his academic work at MIT, he is Visiting Professor at University of Strathclyde (Scotland) and is on the Faculty Committee at the Asian Business School.