2024 HEC Paris Entrepreneurship Workshop

Location: HEC Paris, 1 rue de la Libération, 78350 Jouy-En-Josas, France 

Organizers: Johan Hombert (HEC Paris), Jessica Jeffers (HEC Paris) 

Contact: Camilla Pater (pater@hec.fr)

Over two days, the 13th Workshop on Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris will bring together renowned academics from the world to discuss cutting-edge research on diverse facets of entrepreneurship, ranging from female talent and equity finance to remote work and structural shifts in innovation. Teh event aims to foster insightful discussions and collaborations.

Program

Thursday 12 December (S Building, room S227)

12.00  Lunch buffet (S building, next to room S227)

13.00  Welcome by Johan Hombert and Jessica Jeffers

13.10 Session 1: Female Talent in Entrepreneurship

Female Representation and Talent Allocation in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Early Exposure to Entrepreneurs
Mikkel Mertz (Rockwool Foundation), Maddalena Ronchi* (Northwestern-Kellogg), Viola Salvestrini (Bocconi)
Discussant: Vicente Cunat (LSE)

Minding Your Business or Your Child? Motherhood and the Entrepreneurship Gap
Valentina Rutigliano* (UBC-Sauder) Discussant: Clemens Mueller (Erasmus)

14.40  Coffee break

15.00  Session 2: Skin in the Game

Entrepreneurial Wealth Concentration and Firm Performance
Steffen Andersen (CBS), Damiano Argan* (Luiss), Luigi Guiso (EIEF), Fabiano Schivardi (Luiss and EIEF)
Discussant: Hans Hvide (University of Bergen)

Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance
Muhammad Meki* (Oxford)
Discussant: Sara Jonsson (Stockholm Business School)

16.30  Coffee break

16.50  Session 3: Entrepreneurial Spawning

Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work
Alan Kwan (HKU), Ben Matthies (Notre Dame), Richard Townsend (UCSD), and Ting Xu* (Toronto- Rotman)
Discussant: Fabrizio Core (LUISS)

17.40  Early Ideas Session
6-minute presentations of early stage research projects

18.20  Adjourn
19.15  Dinner at restaurant la Table du Château (for speakers)

Friday 13 December (S Building, room S227)

8.30  Morning coffee and snacks

9.00  Session 4: Development Entrepreneurship

Opportunities and Entrepreneurship: Evidence on Advanced Labor Market Experience
Matthew Pecenco* (Brown), Carlos Schmidt-Padilla (Berkeley), Hamilton Taveras (Ministry of Finance, Dominican Republic)
Discussant: Diogo Mendes (SSE)

Startups in Africa
Emanuele Colonnelli* (Chicago-Booth), Marcio Cruz (IFC), Mariana Pereira-Lopez (IFC), Tommaso
Porzio (Columbia Business School), Chun Zhao (Stanford GSB) Discussant: Ritwika Sen (LMU)

10.30  Coffee break

10.50  Session 5: Startup Employees

Startup Employees’ Career Paths: Evidence from Business Accelerators
Juanita Gonz´alez-Uribe* (LSE), Marion Restrepo (iNNpulsa), Santiago Reyes (IFC), Xiang Yin (Tsinghua), Yufeng Wang (Tsinghua)
Discussant: Caroline Genc (Michigan State)

11.40   Early Ideas Session
6-minute presentations of early stage research projects

12.30  Lunch buffet

14.00  Session 6: Structural Shifts in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The Life Cycle Origins of the Investment Puzzle
Martin Aragoneses* (INSEAD)
Discussant: Nicholas Kozeniauskas (Bank of Portugal)

The Missing Worker Innovation, Demographics and Human Capital after WW1
Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris), Jean-Baptiste Chaniot* (CREST and College de France) Discussant: Ruveyda Gozen (Cardiff Business School)

15.30  Adjourn

*Presenting author.

Each 45-minute session is divided into a 25-minute presentation by one of the authors, a 10-minute analysis by the discussant and 10 minutes for Q&A. Please bring your presentation on a USB stick.
 

On December 14, the second edition of the HEC Paris AI and Entrepreneurship Workshop, organized by Professors Carlos Serrano and Thomas Astebro of the Economis & Decision Sciences, will also be held on HEC Paris campus. Find the program and register here.