Tim Pollock

Tim Pollock is the Haslam Chair of Business and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business. He holds the Kinney Family Faculty Research Fellowship and is a Research Fellow at the Neel Corporate Governance Center and Oxford University's Corporate Reputation Centre. Previously, he taught at Penn State, University of Maryland, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His research focuses on the social construction of value in corporate governance, executive compensation, IPO markets, and entrepreneurial environments. Key areas include reputation dynamics, celebrity influence, media effects, and strategic decision-making. He has won multiple awards, including the IDEA Thought Leader Award and Oxford's Best Published Paper Award.

Pollock has authored How to Use Storytelling in Academic Writing and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation. He teaches entrepreneurship and organization theory, receiving the Mabel C. Chipman Teaching Excellence Award. His work appears in top journals like Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly.

He serves on editorial boards for major journals and contributed to the Corporate Reputation Review. His research explores topics like CEO celebrity, IPO firm strategies, and minority-owned firm alliances, blending organizational theory with practical managerial insights.