Bill Aulet

Bill is an award-winning educator and author whose work is built off his 25-year career first at IBM and then as a three-time serial entrepreneur. He has directly raised over a hundred million dollars and created hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value through his companies. Since 2009, he has been responsible for leading the development and delivery of entrepreneurship education across MIT at the Martin Trust Center. Bill's first book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, released in August 2013, has been translated into over 24 languages and has been the content for three online edX courses which have been taken by hundreds of thousands of people in 199 different countries. The accompanying follow-on book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook, was released in April 2017. Bill has widely published in in places such as the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, the Boston Globe, the Sloan Management Review, the Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneur Magazine, MIT Sloan Experts and more. He has been a featured speaker on shows such as CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC News, Bloomberg News as well as at events and conferences around the world.

He has degrees from Harvard (Engineering) and MIT (Management) and is a former board member of MITEK Systems (NASDAQ: MITK) and XLFleet (Private) as well as a current advisory board member for the AXA Venture Partners. He has been a visiting professor at University of Strathclyde (Scotland). On July 1, 2017, Bill was named a Professor of the Practice at MIT Sloan (which has since become the endowed Ethernet Inventors chair), the first at the school in the area of entrepreneurship since Alex d’Arbeloff was in July 1, 2003. Bill has earned external recognition as well for his efforts which include Boston 50 on Fire, 2017 Favorite MBA Professors from Poets and Quants, and 2018 Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. In 2019, Bill was awarded the Outstanding Contributions to Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award by the Deshpande Foundation. In 2021, Bill was recognized by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) as the 2021 Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year.