NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

3rd Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp

 

Thomas Hellmann, Organizer

 

July 28-31, 2010

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

SYLLABUS

 

TUESDAY, JULY 27:

 

8:30 am             All Boot Camp students are welcome to attend the regular session of the NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group,

which is being held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. Attendance is voluntary and not formally part of the Boot Camp program.

 

4:00 pm             Entrepreneurship Working Group adjourns

 

6:00 pm             Welcome Reception for all Boot Camp students

Grafton Street Pub & Grill

1230 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:

 

8:30 am             Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am             Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

                        Topic:  The Sources of Entrepreneurs: Theory and Empirics

 

12:00 n              Lunch

 

1:00 pm             Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER

                        Topic:  Returns to Private Equity

 

4:00 pm             Break

 

4:15 pm             Robert Strom, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program

 

4:30 pm             Alicia Robb, UC Santa Cruz and Kauffman Foundation

                        Introduction to Entrepreneurship Databases

 

5:30 pm             Adjourn

 

THURSDAY, JULY 29:

 

8:30 am             Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am             John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER

                        Topic:  Productivity and Entrepreneurship     SLIDES

 

12:00 n              Lunch

 

1:00 pm             Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER

                        Topic:  Entrepreneurship and Urban Economics

 

4:00 pm             Adjourn

 

FRIDAY, JULY 30:

 

8:30 am             Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am             Annamaria Lusardi, Dartmouth College and NBER

                        Topic:  The Decision to become an Entrepreneur

 

12:00 n              Lunch

 

1:00 pm             Joshua Gans, University of Melbourne

Scott Stern, MIT and NBER

                        Topic:  Start-Up Commercialization Strategy and the Market for Ideas

 

4:00 pm             Adjourn

 

6:00 pm             Closing Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

 

                        Keynote Speaker:  Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER

 

SATURDAY, JULY 31:

 

8:30 am             Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am             David Robinson, Duke University and NBER

                        Topic:  Behavioral Entrepreneurship

 

12:00 n              Lunch

 

1:00 pm             Thomas Hellmann, University of British Columbia and NBER

                        Topic:  Venture Capital Finance

 

4:00 pm             Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

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