Harvard Business School held its annual entrepreneurship research conference on December 9-10, 2004. We received nearly 120 papers and selected ten to be discussed in the following sessions: Entrepreneurial Entry, Entrepreneurial Strategies, Accessing External Technologies, Spillovers and Networks. A wide range of discussions and panels also took place.
Conference Schedule, December 9-10, 2004
| Thursday, December 9 | |
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| 8:00 - 9:45 | Registration and check-in |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Paper Session 1: Entrepreneurial Entry Session Chair: Tom Eisenmann "Do Small Firms Produce Better Entrepreneurs?" - Jesper B. Sorensen (MIT)
- Damon J. Phillips (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina) |
| "Barriers to Entrepreneurship" - Leora Klapper (Worldbank)
- Luc Laeven (Worldbank & Centre for Economic Policy Research)
- Raghuram Rajan (International Monetary Fund & National Bureau of Economic Research)
Discussant: Paul Gompers (Harvard Business School) |
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| "Fighting for Talent: Risk-Taking, Corporate Volatility, and Organizational Change" - Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)
- Guido Friebel (University of Toulouse)
Discussant: David Scharfstein (Harvard Business School) |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Paper Session 2: Entrepreneurial Strategies Session Chair: Noam Wasserman "Symbolic Emphasizing: How Entrepreneurs Use Symbolism To Acquire Resources" - Christoph Zott (INSEAD)
- Quy Huy (INSEAD)
Discussant: Deborah Dougherty (Rutgers University) |
| "Venture Capitalists and Cooperative Start-up Commercialization Strategy" - David H. Hsu (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Petra Moser (MIT) |
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| 2:30 - 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 - 4:30 | Paper Session 3: Accessing External Technologies Session Chair: Clark Gilbert "Real Options In Technology Licensing" - Arvids A. Ziedonis (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Rebecca Henderson (MIT) |
| "Thresholds and Bandwagons: The Adoption of Corporate Venture Capital Programs" - Vibha Gaba (INSEAD)
- Alan D. Meyer (University of Oregon)
Discussant: Raffi Amit (University of Pennsylvania) |
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| 5:30 - 6:00 | Reception |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Dinner |
| Friday, December 10 | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 10:30 | Paper Session 4: Spillovers and Networks Session Chair: Constance E. Bagley "Does Geography Matter for Science-based Firms?" - Michelle Gittelman (New York University)
Discussant: David Mowery (University of California, Berkeley) |
| "Spillovers versus Embeddedness: The Contingent Effects of Propinquity and Social Structure" - Kjersten Bunker Whittington (Stanford)
- Jason Owen-Smith (Univ. of Michigan)
- Walter W. Powell (Stanford)
Discussant: Mauro Guillen (University of Pennsylvania) |
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| "Death Hurts, But It Isn’t Fatal: The Post-Exit Diffusion Of Knowledge Created By Innovative Companies" - Glenn Hoetker (Univeristy of Illinois)
- Rajshree Agarwal (University of Illinois)
Discussant: Joel Baum (University of Toronto, Rotman School) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 5: Panel of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Session Chair: Mary Tripsas Panel Discussion: Disciplinary Perspectives on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Panelists: - Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School
- Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford
- Scott Stern, Kellogg School at Northwestern
- Bill Sahlman, Harvard Business School
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| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch |