11th HEC Workshop on entrepreneurship

The HEC Paris Entrepreneurship Workshop is a small-scale workshop that brings together researchers working in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation. It offers great opportunities for research discussions and interactions inside and outside the seminar room.

Event details

PROGRAM

Day 1:  Friday, December 09, 2022 - S228
12.15: Lunch on campus restaurant (Le Petit Gustave) for speakers, faculty, PhD students, guests
13.25: Welcome by Johan Hombert & Simon Mayer, HEC Paris
 
Session 1: Venture Capital and Angels
13.30: Who Becomes a Business Angel?
Katarina Warg (Stockholm School of Economics) Laurent Bach (ESSEC), Ramin Baghai (Stockholm School of Economics), Per Strömberg (Stockholm School of Economics)
Discussant: Ludovic Phalippou (Oxford-Saïd)
 
14.20: The Value-Add of Venture Capital Due-diligence: Information Frictions, Startup Growth and Failed Fundraising Campaigns

Juanita González-Uribe (LSE), Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London), Su Wang (ShanghaiTech University), Xiang Yin (Tsinghua University)
Discussant: Ye Zhang (Stockholm School of Economics)
 
15.10: Private Equity and Venture Capital Fund Performance: Evidence from a Large Sample of Israeli Limited Partners
Guy Lakan (The Hebrew University)Alon Brav (Duke University), Yishay Yafeh (The Hebrew University) Johan Cassel (Vanderbilt University)

16.00: Coffee break
 
Session 2: Private Equity
16.20: Private Equity Debt Funds: Who Wins, Who Loses?
 Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (SKEMA Business School), Axel Buchner (University of Passau), Armin Schwienbacher (SKEMA Business School)
 Discussant: Young Soo Jang (Chicago Booth)
 
17.10: Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes
 Constantine Yannelis (Chicago Booth) Atul Gupta (Wharton), Sabrina Howell (NYU Stern), Abhinav Gupta (UNC Chapel Hill)
Discussant: Stefan Obernberger (Erasmus University)

18.30: Bus leaves from the Best Western Hotel
19.00: Dinner at Restaurant  la Table des Blot
22.00: Bus returns from Restaurant to Best Western Hotel
 
Day 2:  Saturday, December 10, 2022 - S228
8.30: Morning Coffee
 
Session 3: Innovation
9.00: More Competition, Better Products: Evidence from a Novel Classification of Patents
 Colin Davison (University of Notre Dame)
 Discussant: Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris)
 
9.50: Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment
 Filippo Mezzanotti (Kellogg School of Management)
 Timothy Simcoe (Boston University)
 
Discussant: Ramin Baghai (Stockholm School of Economics)
10.40: Coffee break
 
Session 4: Diversity and Trust
11.00: Trust and Innovation within the Firm: Evidence from Matched CEO-Firm Data
 Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Kellogg School of Management)
 Discussant: Anastasia Girshina (Stockholm School of Economics)

11.50: Racial Diversity in Private Capital Fundraising
 Emmanuel Yimfor, Johan Cassel (Vanderbilt University), Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School)
 Discussant: Carlos Serrano (HEC Paris)

12.40: Lunch
 
Session 5:  Fintech
14.00: Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking
 Greg Buchak (Stanford University), Tania Babina (Columbia Business School), Will Gornall (University of British Columbia)
 Discussant: Ansgar Walther (Imperial College)

14.50: The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence by Venture Capitalists
 Maxime Bonelli (HEC Paris)
Discussant: Roxana Mihet (HEC Lausanne)

16.30: End of the workshop
 
 Organisers: Johan Hombert & Simon Mayer
 
Contact logistics: pater@hec.fr