Dr. Howard Rasheed completed his Doctor of Philosophy from The Florida State University in Strategic, International, & Entrepreneurial Management in 1996. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurial Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the University of West Florida.

Dr. Rasheed currently teaches courses in Strategic Management and Managing Innovation and Technology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He has previously taught courses in Entrepreneurship, International Management and Managing in the Future at the Universities of West Florida and South Florida.

Dr. Rasheed has authored several papers and cases on Small and Entrepreneurial Business, Business Policy, Youth Entrepreneurship, International Business, and Total Quality Management, including:

• Entry Mode Strategy and Performance: Moderating Effects of Environmental Factors: pending publication at the Journal of Small Business Management).
• Determinants of Governance Structure for the Electronic Value Chain: Resource Dependency and Transaction Costs Perspectives: Journal of Business Strategies,
• Capital Access Barriers to Public Procurement Performance: The Moderating Effects of Ethnicity, Gender and Education, pending publication at the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship).
• The Effect of Corporate Strategy and Regulation on the Risk of Electric Utilities. International Journal of Organizational Analysis
• Developing Entrepreneurial Characteristics in Minority Youth: The Effects of Education and Enterprise Experience in Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Structure.

Dr. Rasheed is President and CEO of Institute for Innovations, specializing in training in strategic vision concepts for innovation and creative thinking. He is the inventor of the patented Strategic Visioning Software based on the Bisociation Brainstorming(TM) process.

He has owned a consulting firm for 25 years in the Florida Gulf Coast area that provided consultative service to small and mid-size entrepreneurial firms. The firm has written and competitively won over $15 million public and private contracts and grants. His firm also specializes in developing, implementing and evaluating youth entrepreneurship programs. Previous positions include Chief Financial Officer of a 410 employee, $20 million aerospace manufacturer; and Account Executive for BellSouth and AT&T.