Fri, April 11

7 - 8 a.m.

Breakfast (Garden Restaurant, Inn & Conference Center)

8 - 8:30 a.m.

Walk to Smith Business School (Van Munching Hall, Rm 1330)

8:30 - 9 a.m.

Welcome Remarks by Dean Howard Frank, Smith Business School

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
20 min for each presenter

The Founder Effect

• (20 min) Founder identity and firm heterogeneity (Sonali Shah, UW)
• (10 min) Commentator: Elaine Romanelli, Georgetown
• (20 min) How do optimistic entrepreneurs attract (high valuations from) outsiders? (Gary Dushnitsky, Wharton)
• (10 min) Commentator: Jeff Martin, UT-Austin
• (30 min) Open Discussion

10:30 - 11 a.m.

Break

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Entrepreneurial Cognition

• (20 min) Crafting interpretation in ambiguous contexts: Entrepreneurial teams and the collective evolution of novel product concepts (Victor Seidel, Oxford)
• (10 min) Commentator: Melissa Graebner, UT-Austin
• (20 min) Making (and keeping) it real: How social exchange systems enable and constrain the enactment of competitive advantage (Mark Kennedy, USC; coauthor: Ed Zajac, Northwestern)
• (10 min) Commentator: Yuri Mishina, Michigan State
• (30 min) Open Discussion

12:30 - 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 - 3:30 p.m.

Poster Session with PhD students

• Competition for VC attention: When, how and why do social referrals matter? (Azi Gera, Maryland)
• The dynamic of tie formation under liability of newness: A longitudinal study of new ventures' failure (David Gomulya, UW-Seattle)
• Entrepreneurial processes, political institutions, and new-venture survival(Shon Hiatt, Cornell)
• Too much of a good thing? Resource (over) mobilization and field emergence (Jade Yu-Chieh Lo, USC)
• Vetting the entrepreneur: A multi-dimensional study of information, trust and new ventures (Kelly Patterson, Cornell)
• Innovation policy and nanotechnology entrepreneurship (Renee Rottner, UCI; co-author: Jennifer Woolley, Santa Clara)

3:30 - 4 p.m.

Break

4 - 6 p.m.

Entrepreneurship and Surprises

• (20 min) Responses to organizational surprises in startups (Yan Gong, UC Irvine)
• (10 min) Commentator: Christine Beckman, UC-Irvine
• (20 min) Structured extemporization: Effective opportunity capture and the development of a high performing organizational process (Chris Bingham, Maryland)
• (10 min) Commentator: Diane Burton, MIT
• (20 min) Empirical investigations of effectual logic:  Implications for strategic entrepreneurship (Saras Sarasvathy, Darden)
• (10 min) Commentator: Ben Hallen, Maryland
• (30 min) Open Discussion

6 - 6:30 p.m.

Walk to Inn & Conference Center

7 - 9 p.m.

Dinner (Inn & Conference Center)