Data-Driven Decision Making in Entrepreneurship: Tools for Maximizing Human Capital

在創業研究中，關於人力資本數據分析的部分存在著一個很大的空白。然而，組織科學在這個領域已經取得了顯著的進展。

Dr. Nikki Blacksmith is Co-Founder and CEO of Blackhawke Behavior Science and an adjunct faculty member at American University in Washington, DC. She serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. Army Research Institute for Social and Behavioral Sciences and is on the Board of Directors of a Sembramos, a nonprofit dedicated to building antiracist organizations. She is an Associate Editor for the journal Personnel Assessments and Decisions, a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Business and Psychology, and serves in multiple leadership roles for the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology. Dr. Blacksmith received her M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Ph.D. from the George Washington University in Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

Dr. Maureen E. McCusker is Co-Founder & COO of Blackhawke Behavior Science and Senior Research Analyst at Virginia Commonwealth University. As an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, she has spent the last decade working with and studying leaders and teams in organizations from a wide variety of sectors, including corporate Fortune 500, medical, legal, academic, military, and non-profit. She has earned several awards and grants for scholarly research from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Virginia Tech, and the Department of Defense. Dr. McCusker serves as a Senior Research Fellow for the U.S. Army Research Institute. She holds a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Virginia Tech and a B.A. in Psychology and French from Georgetown University.

Dr. Nikki Blacksmith 是 Blackhawke Behavior Science 的共同創辦人及執行長，同時也是美國華盛頓特區美國大學的兼任教員。她擔任美國陸軍社會與行為科學研究所的高級研究員，並且是非營利組織 Sembramos 的董事會成員，該組織致力於建立反種族主義的機構。她是期刊《Personnel Assessments and Decisions》的副編輯，也是《Journal of Business and Psychology》的編輯委員會成員，並在《Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology》中擔任多個領導職位。Dr. Blacksmith 於北卡羅來納州夏洛特大學獲得碩士學位，並在喬治華盛頓大學獲得工業與組織心理學的博士學位。

Dr. Maureen E. McCusker 是 Blackhawke Behavior Science 的共同創辦人及首席運營官，並擔任維吉尼亞聯邦大學的高級研究分析師。作為一名工業與組織心理學家，她在過去十年中與來自各行各業的領導者和團隊合作並進行研究，這些行業包括企業財富500強、醫療、法律、學術、軍事和非營利組織。她曾獲得美國衛生與公共服務部、維吉尼亞理工大學及國防部的多項學術研究獎項和資助。Dr. McCusker 擔任美國陸軍研究所的高級研究員。她擁有維吉尼亞理工大學的工業與組織心理學博士及碩士學位，以及喬治城大學的心理學和法語學士學位。