NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
3rd Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp
Thomas Hellmann, Organizer
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
TUESDAY, JULY 27:
which
is being held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. Attendance is voluntary and not
formally part of the Boot Camp program.
6:00 pm Welcome Reception for all Boot Camp
students
Grafton Street Pub & Grill
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,
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
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