Travis Howell

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

I am an assistant professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. My research primarily focuses on entrepreneurial teams. My existing work focuses on three related questions: (1) Should founders form a team at all? (2) How do founders form their teams? and (3) Once formed, how do entrepreneurial teams avoid dysfunction? 

My work has been cited in various news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune Magazine, the Financial Times, Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, Reuters, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, BBC, the Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, FastCompany, Nasdaq.com, Observer.com, and Marketplace.com. My research has been funded by the Kauffman Foundation, the Strategy Research Foundation, and the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. 

Before entering academia, I worked as a consultant at PwC focusing on the valuation of intangible assets (technology, customer relationships, trademarks, etc.). Clients ranged from venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 companies. I also worked at two startups: IMSAR, a startup developing advanced radar technology, and Seasons, an attempt at re-inventing the grocery store.