Two Mainland professors to join UH business faculty

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The University of Hawai'i-Manoa has hired professors from Harvard Business School and Miami University to serve on the College of Business Administration faculty.

Robert J. Robinson, who is from South Africa and has been a Harvard faculty member since 1991, will become a professor of entrepreneurship and e-business at UH.

He is co-author of "Angel Investing: Matching Startup Funds with Startup Companies," serves on the board of several angel investors' networks and startup technology companies, and holds a doctoral degree in psychology from Stanford University. Robinson was a visiting professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2000-01.

Michael H. Morris, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, will become a professor of entrepreneurship, marketing and information technology at UH.

He is editor of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, and designed an emerging-business assistance program in South Africa. He holds a doctoral degree in marketing from Virginia Tech.

Correction: Professors from Harvard Business School and Miami University in Ohio have been appointed to endowed professorships at the University of Hawai'i Manoa — College of Business Administration. Robert J. Robinson has been designated the Barry and Virginia Weinman Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and E-Business. Michael H. Morris was named Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Information Technology, occupying a chair financed by an anonymous couple. Their appointments were incomplete in a previous version of this story.