Gary Hoover is a business history fellow at the Archbridge Institute and lead author of the institute’s popular “American Originals" series. He is the rare combination of a business scholar and practitioner. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago, where he studied under four Nobel laureates. He has served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Texas at Austin, and he is a fellow of the IC2 Institute. He speaks to conferences and corporate groups and works to encourage innovation and entrepreneurial thinking on every continent and in every industry, for-profit and not-for-profit.