NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Thomas Hellmann, Organizer
July 27-30, 2011
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
TUESDAY, JULY 26:
8:30 am All Boot Camp students are welcome to attend the regular
session of the NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group at the Royal Sonesta Hotel http://www.nber.org/~confer/2011/SI2011/PRENT/PRENTprg.html
Attendance
is voluntary and not formally part of the Boot Camp program.
3:45 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 27:
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Josh Lerner, Harvard University and
NBER
Topic: The
Empirics of Entrepreneurial Venture Creation
12:00 n Lunch
1:00 pm Alexander Ljungqvist, New York
University and NBER
Topic: Privately
versus Publicly Held Companies
4:00 pm Break
4:15 pm Jared
Konczal, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Dissertation Fellowship Program
4:30 pm Alicia Robb, UC, Santa Cruz and Kauffman Foundation
Topic: Introduction
to Entrepreneurship Databases
5:30 pm Adjourn
THURSDAY, JULY 28:
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Thomas Hellmann, UBC and NBER
Topic: Venture
Capital Financing
12:00 n Lunch
1:00 pm Scott Stern, MIT and NBER
Topic:
Start-Up Commercialization
Strategy and the Market for Ideas
4:00 pm Break
6:00 pm Voluntary student presentations
Boot
Camp students can briefly present their own work without slides, and obtain
informal feedback.
9:00 pm Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 29:
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 John Haltiwanger, University of
Maryland and NBER
Topic: Productivity
and Entrepreneurship
4:00 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Closing Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
Keynote
Speaker: Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER
SATURDAY, JULY 30:
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER
Topic: Development
and Entrepreneurship
12:00 n Lunch
1:00 pm Olav Sorenson, Yale University
Topic: Sociological
Approaches to Entrepreneurship
4:00 pm Adjourn