StrategY, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Workshop
A virtual workshop featuring research on strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. All seminars in the Winter term will take place on Zoom (registration required, see below). The virtual SIE workshop organizers are Colleen Cunningham (University of Utah, Eccles), Giada Di Stefano (Bocconi University), Carlos Serrano (HEC Paris), and Valentina Tartari (Stockholm School of Economics).
Format and Rules
30 minutes presentation.
One discussant, 10 minutes.
15 minutes moderated Q&A (collect questions during presentation).
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Join our mailing list for workshop announcements using the form. We will send separate RSVP invitations to register with Zoom for each seminar announcement.
Next Seminars
In the Spring term, April to June 2024, all seminars will be every other Monday at 5.30PM (Paris time) and will take place on Zoom (registration required, see section Join our Mailing List).
Presenter: Yoko Shibuya (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
Paper title: Breaking the Barrier to CEO Succession at SMEs: Japanese Reform on Personal Guarantees on Business Loans
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Wei Shen (W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University)
Presenter: Leandro S. Pongeluppe (UPenn, Wharton)
Paper title: Leviathan as a Client: Public Versus Private Promotion of Desalination Technologies to Address Water Scarcity (with Ilze Kivleniece and Sérgio Lazzarini)
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Abhishek Nagaraj (UC Berkeley, Haas)
Presenter: Federica De Stefano (HEC Paris)
Paper title: Artificial Intelligence in hiring and gender-based differences in job applicants’ outcomes: Evidence from a large retail organization (with Christophe Hurlin, Christophe Perignon, and Sebastien Saurin)
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Alan Benson (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)
Presenter: Hong Luo (Harvard Business School)
Paper title: Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices (with Alberto Galasso)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Ariel D. Stern (Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam and Harvard Business School)
Past Seminars
Winter 2024
Presenter: Solène Delecourt (UC Berkeley-Haas)
Paper title: The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance (with Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, David Holtz, and Rembrand Koning)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Raj Choudhury (Harvard Business School)
Presenter: Francesco Di Lorenzo (Copenhagen Business School)
Paper title: Corporate Venture Capitalists and the Sale of Patents by High-tech Startups
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Andrea Fosfuri (Bocconi)
Presenter: Francesco Di Lorenzo (Copenhagen Business School)
Paper title: Corporate Venture Capitalists and the Sale of Patents by High-tech Startups
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Andrea Fosfuri (Bocconi)
Presenter: Caroline Fry (University of Hawai'i, Schidler College of Business)
Paper title: If You Build It, They Will Come: The Impact of Clinical Trial Experience on African Science (with Michael Blomfield)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Michael Bikard (INSEAD)
Presenter: Bukky Oyedeji (London Business School)
Paper title: Perceptions of Knowledge Transferability and Entrepreneurial Entry: The Role of Firm-Initiated Turnover
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Evan Starr (University of Maryland, Robert Smith School of Business)
Fall 2023
Presenter: Noni Symeonidou (Warwick Business School)
Paper title: Entrepreneurs' growth aspirations and the gender gap in investor decisions (with Dawn Eubanks (Warwick Business School) and Denis Grégoire (HEC Montreal))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Kaisa Snellman (INSEAD)
Presenter: Britta Glennon (Wharton)
Paper title: The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice: Evidence from Canada’s Start-up Visa Program (with Saerom (Ronnie) Lee (Wharton))
Link to paper: Paper
Discussant: Martin Ganco (University of Wisconsin)
Presenter: Anil Doshi (University College London)
Paper title: Generative Artificial Intelligence Enhances Creativity but Reduces the Diversity of Novel Content (with Oliver Hauser (University of Exeter))
Link to paper: Paper
Discussant: Daniel (Dan) Gross (Duke, Fuqua)
Presenter: Daniel Keum (Columbia Business School)
Paper title: Managerial Prosocial Preferences and Automation Innovation
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Guoli Chen (INSEAD)
Spring 2023
Presenter: Casidhe Troyer (London Business School)
Paper title: Headquarters versus Subsidiary Management of R&D Subsidiaries: Evidence from the Introduction of Broadband Communication Technology (with Catherine Magelssen (London Business School))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Minyuan Zhao (Washington University in St. Louis, Olin)
Presenter: Manav Raj (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton)
Paper title: When Delivery Comes to Town: Digital Distribution Platform Penetration and Establishment Exit (with JP Eggers (NYU Stern))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Joost Rietveld (University College London, School of Management)
Presenter: Thomaz Teodorovicz (Copenhagen Business School)
Paper title: Private Provision of Social Services at Scale and Strategic Human Capital Reconfiguration: Evidence from Private Higher Education
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Evan Rawley (UConn, School of Business)
Presenter: F. Christopher Eaglin (Duke University, Fuqua)
Paper title: Pushed up the Mountain: Initial Conditions, Early Strategy Selection, and Firm Performance
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Jorge Guzman (Columbia Business School)
Winter 2023
Presenter: Daniel Fehder (University of Southern California, Marshall)
Paper title: Moving Forward or Falling Back: Gender Differences in Career Advancement When Re-entering the Workforce After Entrepreneurship (with Tristan L. Botelho and Milan Miric)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Extended Abstract
Discussant: Isabel Fernández-Mateo (London Business School)
Presenter: Jennifer Kao (UCLA, Anderson School of Management)
Paper title: Charted Territory: Mapping the Cancer Genome and R&D Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Link to paper or extended abstract: Extended Abstract
Discussant: Kevin Bryan (University of Toronto, Rotman)
Presenter: Niloofar Abolfathi (National University of Singapore)
Paper title: Demand Pull Versus Resource Push Training Approaches to Entrepreneurship: A Field Experiment
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Elizabeth Lyons (UC San Diego)
Presenter: Cedric Gutierrez (Bocconi University)
Paper title: Pay Transparency and Productivity (with Tomasz Obloj and Todd Zenger)
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Laurina Zhang (Boston University, Questrom)
Fall 2022
Presenter: Aharon Cohen Mohliver (London Business School)
Paper title: Dominant Deceptions: Explaining the Tenacity of Deceit in Entrepreneurial Ventures (with Rebecca Karp (Harvard Business School) and Tiona Zuzul (Harvard Business School))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Fabrizio Ferraro (IESE)
Presenter: Dmitry Sharapov (Imperial College London)
Paper title: Selection regimes and selection errors (with Linus Dahlander (ESMT Berlin))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Thorbjørn Knudsen (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
Presenter: Maria P. Roche (Harvard Business School)
Paper title: (Co-)Working in Close Proximity: Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions (with Alexander Oettl (Georgia Tech, Scheller) and Christian Catalini (Lightspark))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Maryann Feldman (Arizona State University and UNC)
Presenter: Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD Business School)
Paper title: Decision Authority and the Returns to Algorithms (with Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard), Andrew Hillis (Harvard), Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School), and Michael Luca (Harvard Business School))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Raj Choudhury (Harvard Business School)
Presenter: Callen Anthony (NYU Stern)
Paper title: Technology Choices: How Autographic Affiliations Shape Patterns of Ongoing Technology Use
Link to extended abstract
Discussant: David A. Kirsch (University of Maryland, Robert Smith School of Business)
Spring 2022
Presenter: Tristan Botelho (Yale School of Management)
Paper title: Star Pursuit and Star Selectivity: Two-Sided Matching Between High-Status Candidates and Startup Employers (with J. Daniel Kim (Wharton, UPenn))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Diane Burton (Cornell)
Presenter: Stefano Baruffaldi (University of Bath)
Paper title: The Returns to Physical Capital in Knowledge Production: Evidence from Lab Disasters (with Fabian Gaessler (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Keyvan Vakili (London Business School)
Presenter: Neus Palomeras (Univesidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Paper title: Employee Protection, Inventor Human Capital, and Innovation Trajectories (with Eduardo Melero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and David Wehrheim (IESE Business School))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Patrick Gaule (University of Bristol)
Presenter: Tiona W. Zuzul (Harvard Business School)
Paper title: Levering a Crisis for Transformation: Outcome and Process Frames at the Federal Bureau of Investigation After 9/11 (with Ryan Raffaelli, Ranjay Gulati and Jan Rivkin (all at Harvard Business School))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Giada Di Stefano (Bocconi University)
Winter 2022
Presenter: Jacquelyn Pless (MIT Sloan)
Paper title: Innovation for Social Progress: When Imperfect Appropriability Meets Incorrect Prices (with Sugandha Srivastav (Oxford))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Mirabelle Muuls (Imperial College London)
Presenter: Vanessa Burbano (Columbia Business School)
Paper title: When to Talk Politics in Business: Theory and Experimental Evidence of Stakeholder Responses to CEO Political Activism (with Tommaso Bondi (Cornell), Fabrizio Dell’Acqua (Columbia))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Donal Crilly (London Business School)
Presenter: Theodor Vladasel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and BSE)
Paper title: Hiring Entrepreneurs for Innovation (with Louise Lindbjerg (Copenhagen Business School))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: David Hsu (Wharton, UPenn)
Presenter: Michael Bikard (INSEAD)
Paper title: Standing on the Shoulders of (Male) Giants: Gender Inequality and the Technological Impact of Scientific Ideas (with Isabel Fernandez-Mateo (London Business School))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Toby Stuart (Berkeley, Haas)
Presenter: Aldona Kapačinskaitė (Bocconi University)
Paper title: Keeping Invention Confidential (with Colleen Cunningham (London Business School))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Hong Luo (Harvard Business School)
Fall 2021
Presenter: Sandy Yu (University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management)
Paper title: Do Accelerators Influence Entrepreneurs’ Future Careers? (with Susan Cohen (University of Georgia) and Benjamin Hallen (University of Washington))
Link to paper or extended abstract: TBA
Discussant: Elena Kulchina (NC State, Poole)
Presenter: Justin Frake (University of Michigan, Ross School of Business)
Paper title: Intergeneration Transmission of Organizational Misconduct: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department (with Derek Harmon (University of Michigan, Ross)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Lamar Pierce (Washington University in St. Louis, Olin)
Presenter: Chiara Franzoni (School of Management, Politecnico di Milano)
Paper title: Topic Choice and the Underfunding of Female Scholars (with Raffaele Mancuso, Chiara Franzoni, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra (all at School of Management, Politecnico di Milano)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Julian Kolev (SMU and USPTO)
Presenter: Chengwei Liu (ESMT-Berlin)
Paper title: Underdogs and One-hit Wonders: When is Overcoming Adversity Impressive?
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Greta Hsu (UC Davis)
Presenter: Megan L. Lawrence (Vanderbilt University, Owen School of Management)
Paper title: The Growth of Hierarchy in Young Firms: Managing Knowledge Scope (with Christopher Poliquin (UCLA, Anderson)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Christina Fang (NYU, Stern)
Spring 2021
Presenter: Eunhee Sohn (Georgia Tech, Scheller College of Business)
Paper title: Bounded Exploration in Local Innovation System: The Effect of Industry Environment on Academic Scientists' Research Trajectory
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Markus Perkmann (Imperial College London)
Presenter: Daniel Kim (Wharton, UPenn)
Paper title: Startup Acquisitions, Relocation, and Employee Entrepreneurship
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Andrea Fosfuri (Bocconi University)
Presenter: Francesca Melillo (SKEMA Business School)
Paper title: The Wage Persistence Puzzle: Earnings Trajectories of Former Entrepreneurs (with Jeroen Mahieu (VU Amsterdam) and Peter Thompson (Georgia Tech, Scheller))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Extended Abstract
Discussant: Henry Sauermann (ESMT Berlin)
Presenter: Philipp Meyer-Doyle (INSEAD)
Paper title: Prior Experiences of Managers and Responsiveness to Performance Feedback: Evidence from Mutual Funds (with Vibha Gaba (INSEAD), Sunkee Lee (CMU, Tepper), and Amy Ding Zhao (TUM School of Management))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not yet provided by the authors
Discussant: DK Kryscynski (BYU Marriott School of Business)
Presenter: Amandine Ody-Brasier (Yale School of Management)
Paper title: Accounting for Negative Attention: Status and Costs in the Market for Audit Services (with Amanda Sharkey (University of Chicago, Booth))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Michelle Rogan (Imperial College Business School)
Winter 2021
Presenter: Rem Koning (Harvard Business School)
Paper title: Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation (with Ruiqing Cao and Ramana Nanda (all at Harvard Business School)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Ethan Mollick (Wharton, Upenn)
Presenter: Annamaria Conti (HEC Lausanne)
Paper title: Information Frictions in the Market for Startup Acquisitions (with Jorge Guzman (Columbia), and Ron Rabi (HEC Lausanne))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Paper
Discussant: Olivier Chatain (HEC Paris)
Presenter: Vera Rocha (Copenhagen Business School)
Paper title: Pipeline Hiring in Young Firms: Individual and (Re)emergent firm value (with Rhett Andrew Brymer (Cincinnati))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Extended Abstract
Discussant: Seth Carnahan (Washington University in St. Louis, Olin)
Presenter: Minyuan Zhao (Washington University in St. Louis, Olin)
Paper title: Home Bias in Patent Litigation: A Myth’s Real Impact on Firm Strategy (with Byung Uk (Charlie) An (Washington University in St. Louis, Olin)
Link to paper or extended abstract: Extended Abstract
Discussant: Joanne Oxley (University of Toronto, Rotman)
Presenter: Florence Honore (Wisconsin School of Business)
Paper title: The Effect of the First Employer Size on Entrepreneurial Transitions (with Haifeng Wang (Wisconsin School of Business))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Extended Abstract
Discussant: Daniel Elfenbein (Washington University in St. Louis, Olin)
Presenter: Denisa Mindruta (HEC Paris)
Paper title: From Unemployed to Business Owner: Improving the Returns from Venture Creation Through Experimentation (with Elena Lizunova (HEC Paris))
Link to paper or extended abstract: Not available
Discussant: Sharique Hasan (Duke University, Fuqua)
Fall 2020
Presenter: Nilanjana Dutt (Bocconi University)
Paper title: Selection Committees and the Acceleration of Women-led Ventures: Evidence from Social-innovation Accelerators (joint with Sarah Kaplan (University of Toronto, Rotman))
Discussant: Laura Huang (Harvard Business School)
Presenter: Kenneth G. Huang (National University of Singapore)
Paper title: State advances and private sector retreats? How state entry impacts the innovation performance of privately owned enterprises (with Cyndi Man Zhang (Singapore Management University))
Discussant: Anil K. Gupta (University of Maryland, Robert Smith School of Business)
Presenter: Kevin Bryan (Rotman, University of Toronto)
Paper title: Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups (joint with Mitch Hoffman (Rotman) and Amir Sariri (Rotman))
Discussant: Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi)
Presenter: Anne ter Wal (Imperial College London)
Paper title: Understanding behavioral tradeoffs in networking for information: An interactive experiment with sociometric badges (joint with Bálint Diószegi (Imperial College Business School), Valentina Tartari (Copenhagen Business School), Daniella Laureiro Martínez (ETH Zürich), Stefano Brusoni (ETH Zürich))
Discussant: Tiziana Casciaro (Rotman, University of Toronto)
Presenter: Olenka Kacperczyk (London Business School)
Paper title: The Founding Penalty: Evidence from Audit Study (joint with Peter Younkin (University of Oregon, Lundquist)) [Link to paper]
Discussant: Kevin Boudreau (Northeastern, D'Amore Mckim School of Business)
Presenter: Laurina Zhang (BU, Questrom)
Discussant: Myriam Mariani (Bocconi)
Presenter: Luisa Gagliardi (Bocconi)
Paper title: Temporal flexibility in the workplace and women’s career progression: Evidence from cross-time-zone acquisitions (joint with Stefano Breschi, Dirk Hovy, and Myriam Mariani (all co-authors in Bocconi))
Discussant: Claudine Gartenberg (Wharton, UPenn)
Spring 2020
Presenter: Henry Sauermann (ESMT- Berlin)
Paper title: What’s the problem? Crowdsourcing research questions in science [SSRN] (joint with Susanne Beck (CBS), Tiare-Maria Brasseur (CBS), and Marion Poetz (CBS))
Discussant: Ina Ganguli (UMass Amherst)
Presenter: Mahka Moeen (UNC-Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler)
Paper title: Zooming In or Zooming Out: Entrants’ Product Usage Breadth in the Nascent Drone Industry (joint with Anavir Shermon (UNC-Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler))
Discussant: Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota, Carlson)
Presenter: Florenta Teodoridis (USC, Marshall)
Paper title: Measuring the Direction of Innovation: Frontier Tools in Unassisted Machine Learning (joint with Jinhong Lu [SSRN] (USC, Marshall), and Jeffrey L. Furman (BU, Questrom))
Discussant: Bruno Cassiman (IESE, University of Navarra)
Presenter: Natalya Vinokurova (UPenn, Wharton)
Paper title: Converting Inventions into Innovations in Large Firms: How Inventors at Xerox Navigated the Innovation Process to Commercialize Their Ideas [SSRN] (joint with Rahul Kapoor (UPenn, Wharton))
Discussant: Mary Tripsas (Boston College, Carroll)
Presenter: Deepak Somaya (Illinois, GIES)
Paper title: External Knowledge Sourcing and Employee Mobility Barriers (joint with Eunkwang Seo (Illinois, GIES)
Discussant: Benjamin Campbell (OSU, Fisher)
Presenter: Seth Carnahan (Washington University in St. Louis, Olin)
Paper title: Do Managers Use Worker Absences to Infer Individual Contributions to Team Production? A Value-Based Approach to Performance Evaluation Using Plant Productivity Data (joint with Jesse Austin-Breneman (Michigan), John Meluso (Michigan), and José Uribe (Michigan, Ross)) [Link to paper]
Discussant: Victor Bennett (Duke, Fuqua)