Ray R. Venkataraman, PhD, is Associate Professor of Management at the Sam and Irene Black School of Business, Penn State Erie. He previously taught at DePaul University and Northern Illinois University, where he received the Ideal Industries Award for Excellence in Business Teaching. His scholarly articles have appeared in several top-tier journals.

Jeffrey K. Pinto is Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in Management of Technology in the Black School of Business, Penn State Erie. Professor Pinto is the coauthor, with Peter Morris, of The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects series, as well as the author or editor of twenty other books and more than 100 scientific papers.