Michael Frese is a Distinguished Professor at Asia School of Business (in cooperation with MIT Sloan Management) and Leuphana University of Lueneburg. His research spans organizational behavior and work psychology, with a particular focus on entrepreneurship, personal initiative, and training interventions. He is best known for developing the Personal Initiative training program, a randomized controlled trial-based intervention to improve entrepreneurial success, with results published in Science and the American Economic Review Insights. He has authored approximately 190 peer-reviewed journal articles and 30 edited books, and holds an h-index of 124 with over 92,500 Google Scholar citations. In 2024, he received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the most prestigious recognition in the field. He is a Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, among other associations. In 2020, he received the Path-to-Scale Award from Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).