Friday, April 11

Saturday, April 12

Ethan Mollick, MIT Sloan School of Management, “The firm as a Potemkin Village:  Individual Performance in a World of Firms”

Bram Timmermans, Aalborg University, “The Missing Link:  Analyzing the Effect of Employees on Entrepreneurial Venture”

Matt Marx, Harvard Business School, “Postemployment restraints and the displacement of human capital”

Alexander Oettl, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, “Which Stars Should You Reach For? Human Capital Spillovers of Star Scientists”

Qianqian Du, University of British Columbia, “Birds of a Feather or Celebrating the Difference? Syndicate Formation in the Venture Capital Industry”

Josh Siepel, SPRU, University of Sussex (UK), “Financial Innovation in the London Markets:  Venture capital trusts and the funding of technology firms”

Elisa Álvarez-Garrido, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “‘Smart Money’? The Impact of Investor Mix on the Performance of New Ventures”

Emily Cox, Stanford University, “Effects of venture funding on innovation:  The case of minimally invasive surgery”

Fernando R. Chaddad, Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, “The operational performance of buyout targets under private equity ownership:Evidence from the US, 1990-2007”

Maria Isabella Leone, University of Bologna, “Search and technological diversification through licensing:  New insights from the licensee’s point of view”

Claudio Wolter, Program in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Change, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, “The Effects of Innovation on Vertical Structure:  A Conceptual Computational Model”

Marcel Bogers, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), College of Management of Technology (CDM), “Firms as user innovators:  An exploration of innovation by user firms”

Elena Novelli, Bocconi University, “Technology Commercialization and Strategic Alliances:  A Longitudinal Study on Nanotechnology”

Aseem Kaul, Management Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Antecedents and Consequences of Divestments”

Michael Ciuchta, University of Wisconsin, “Organizational Learning and the Business-Science Dual Identity”

Hongquan (David) Zhu, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, “Group Polarization on Corporate Boards”

Karl Wennberg, Stockholm School of Economics, Visiting researcher (‘07-‘08), SCANCOR, Stanford University, “Entrepreneurial Exit”

Hyoung-Goo Kang, Duke University, “Organizational Capital Budgeting Model (OCBM)”

Jason O’Connor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University, “Endogenous Technological Competition:  Strategic Interaction Between Start-Up and Established Innovators in Biotechnology”

Arianna Martinelli, Eindhoven University of Technology, “Technological Trajectories and Industry Evolution:  The case of the Telecom Switching Industry”

David Tan, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, “Market Crowding and Appropriability in the Semiconductor Industry”

Surendrakumar Bagde, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, “Initial Conditions and Post-entry Performance:  the Case of Indian Software Industry”

Sunday, April 13

Felipe Csaszar, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Essays on the effects of organizational form on organizational performance”

Dimo Ringov, INSTEAD, “‘Teams or Stars’? A Study of Organizational Change in the Mutual Fund Industry”

Ashton Hawk, Stern School of Business, New York University, “Speed Capabilities and Firm Competition”

David James Brunner, Harvard Business School, “Strategic Implications of Computer-Assisted Routines”

Brad Staats, Harvard Business School, “Knowledge, Experience and Performance:  Evidence from Indian Software Services”

Charles Eesley, MIT Sloan School of Management, “Who Jumps into the Sea and When?: Entrepreneurship and Policy Change in China”

Matthew Hamilton, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Program in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Change, Carnegie Mellon University, “Political Latitude and Institutional Change:  Scale and Efficiency of Regional Technology-Based Economic Development Investments”

Robert Seamans, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, “Entry Deterrence and New Technology Deployment in the Cable TV Industry”

Eun-Hee Kim, International Business/Business Economics, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, “Do Market Forces or Politics Drive Electric Utilities to Go Green?”