Launch Conference > Session Details
Monday
Session 1
Strategy vs Entrepreneurship
- Moderator
- Duane Ireland, Texas A&M University
- Presenter
- Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford University
"What are Capabilities?"
- Presenter
- Jay Barney, Sharon Alvarez, Ohio State University
"Entrepreneurial Opportunity Formation and Firm Heterogeneity"
- Discussant
- Mark Shanley, University of Illinois at Chicago
Session 2
Social Role of Entrepreneurship
- Moderator
- C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan
- Presenter
- C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan
- Presenter
- Shaker A. Zahra, University of Minnesota
"The Social Role of Entrepreneurship"
- Discussant
- MB Sarkar, University of Central Florida
Session 3
Risk and Uncertainty
- Moderator
- Steve Kaplan, University of Chicago
- Presenter
- Kent Miller, Michigan State University
"Risk and Rationality in Entrepreneurial Processes"
- Presenter
- Dean Shepherd, Indiana University, and
Jeffrey McMullen, Baylor University
"Opportunity Beliefs: Entrepreneurial Ignorance and Doubt Under Conditions of Risk, Ambiguity, and Uncertainty"
- Discussant
- Tim Folta, Purdue University
Session 4
Technology: The Role of Network Structures
- Moderator
- Dan Levinthal, University of Pensylvania
- Presenter
- Lori Rosenkopf, University of Pensylvania
"The Structure of Innovation: An Exploration of the Determinants of Cross-Industry Variety in Alliance Networks"
- Presenter
- Toby Stuart, Harvard University, and
Olav Sorenson, University of Toronto
"Strategic Networks and Entrepreneurial Ventures’"
- Discussant
- William Schulze, University of Utah
Tuesday
Session 5
Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
- Moderator
- Robert Strom, Kauffman Foundation
- Presenter
- Nigel Wadeson, University of Reading
"Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Performance"
- Presenter
- David Audretsch, Max-Planck Institute of Economics and
Rajshree Agarwal, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
"Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth"
- Presenter
- William J. Baumol, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
- Discussant
- Steven Michael, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Session 6
Innovation
- Moderator
- Charles Snow, Pensylvania State University
- Presenter
- Michael Tushman and Adam Kleinbaum, Harvard University
"Building Bridges: The Social Structure of Interdependent Innovation"
- Presenter
- Mary Tripsas, Harvard University
"A Theory of End-User Entrepreneurship"
- Discussant
- Michael Leiblein, Ohio State University
Session 7
Creativity, Imagination, and Opportunities
- Moderator
- Jing Zhou, Rice University
- Presenter
- Nicos Nicolaou, Imperial College
"The Influence of Sensation Seeking in the Heritability of Entrepreneurship"
- Presenter
- Christina Shalley, Georgia Tech
"Team Creativity and Creative Cognition: Interactive Effects of Social and Cognitive Networks"
- Presenter
- Dan Levinthal, University of Pensylvania
"Doing versus Seeing: Acts of Exploitation and Observations of Exploration"
- Discussant
- Sharon Alvarez, Ohio State University
Session 8
Change
- Moderator
- David Ketchen, Auburn University
- Presenter
- Jean Bartunek, Boston College
"Improving on a Successful Innovation: Attempts, Complications, and
Consequences"
- Presenter
- Ken Smith, University of Maryland
"An Entrepreneurial Perspective of Firm-Environment Relationship"
- Discussant
- Jeff Covin, Indiana University
Wednesday
Session 9
Entrepreneurial Actions, Innovation, and Appropriability
- Moderator
- Gautam Ahuja, Pennsylvania State University
- Presenter
- Morton Kamien, Northwestern University
"Strategic Patent Licensing"
- Presenter
- David Ketchen, Auburn University
"Strategic Entrepreneurship, Collaborative Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation"
- Presenter
- Harry Sapienza, University of Minnesota
"A Strategic Entrepreneurial View of Resource Mobilization"
- Discussant
- Don Siegel, University of California—Riverside
Session 10
Behavioral Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Activity
- Moderator
- Arnold Cooper, Purdue University, Emeritus
- Presenter
- Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina
"Small Worlds, Infinite Possibilities? Social Networks and Entrepreneurship"
- Presenter
- Robert Baron, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Entrepreneurs: The Active Element in New Venture Creation"
- Discussant
- Lowell Busenitz, University of Oklahoma