Thomas Åstebro

Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences

Thomas Åstebro is Professor of Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris; Academic Director CDL Paris, and former Academic Director, HEC Online Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship; co-Director Entrepreneurship Track HEC MBA Program, Academic Director of the HEC Leadership Center; member of the Steering committee HEC Management Research Group; and member of the Steering and Curriculum committees in the MBA Program at HEC.

astebro@hec.fr

Latest articles

Entrepreneurship and Startups

November 27th, 2023

Startups Founded by Ph.D.s Decline: Why One Should Worry

After obtaining their diploma, graduates with a Ph.D. can choose between becoming academics, joining a large company, or founding or joining a start-up...

By Thomas Åstebro

Entrepreneurship and Startups

April 21st, 2023

Why Venture Capitalists Should Invest in Start-Ups Led by Diverse Teams

How do diverse European teams fare in gathering investment for their ideas and taking their product or service to market? Amazingly, this question had...

By Carlos Serrano, Thomas Åstebro

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Artificial Intelligence

October 11th, 2021

5 minutes

Will the Increased Use of AI in Private Equity Cause an Industry Shakeout?

A new study developed by Thomas Åstebro, Professor of Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris, finds that the number of private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC...

By Thomas Åstebro

Diversity & Inclusion

June 03rd, 2021

Including and Managing Diversity: Interview with Researchers

In this interview with Knowledge@HEC, a dozen of professors and Ph.D. students from HEC Paris share the key findings of their latest research on...

By Elena Lizunova, Denisa Mindruta, Roxana Barbulescu, Valérie Gauthier, Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj (education Track - Doha Campus), Leandro Nardi, Marieke Huysentruyt, John Mawdsley, Rodolphe Durand, Bianca Crivellini Eger, Thomas Åstebro