KDFP Fellows

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  2010
Name Degree Institution Dissertation Title Current Institution
Marnix Amand Yale University The Macroeconomic Implications of the Wealth Distribution Yale University
W. Chad Carlos Cornell University "Fast Food" Health Clinics: Institutional Influences on New Ventures in an Emerging Industry Cornell University
Emily Choi University of California at Berkeley Fitting in and Making Friends: The Relation of Organizational Identity to New Organizational Networks University of California at Berkeley
Kellilynn Frias University of Arizona Essays on the Impact of Venture Capital on Product Form Strategies in High-Technology Markets University of Arizona
Naomi Hausman Harvard University The Effects of Health Insurance Costs on Small Business Outcomes Harvard University
Peng Huang Georgia Institute of Technology Essays on Platform Innovation Ecosystems Formation: Evidence from Start-up Independent Software Vendors in the Enterprise Software Industry Georgia Institute of Technology
Amol Joshi University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Entrepreneurial Discovery and Information Complexity in Knowledge-Intensive Industries University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
David Kryscynski Emory University The Human Capital Edge in Small Entrepreneurial Firms: Do These Firms Have Incentive Advantages? Emory University
Xiaoyang Li University of Michigan Essays in Law, Finance and Entrepreneurship University of Michigan
Hong Luo New York University When to Sell Your Ideas? Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry New York University
Rory McDonald Stanford University Entrepreneurship, New Market Construction, and Competitive Interaction Stanford University
Sarada University of California at San Diego Essays on the Determinants of Entrepreneurship University of California at San Diego
Juan Carlos Suarez University of California at Berkeley Decisions in Public Economics University of California at Berkeley
Rodrigo Wagner Harvard University Pioneer Exporters: Entrepreneurs Discovering New Export Sectors in Less Developed Countries Harvard University
Rukiye Isil Yavuz University of Minnesota The Role of Founders' Immigrant Status in the Internationalization of New Ventures in High Technology Industries University of Minnesota
  2009
Name Degree Institution Dissertation Title Current Institution
Javed I. Ahmed University of California at Berkeley Venture Capital Fund Formation: The Effects of Limited Partner Monitoring on Capital Availability for Entrepreneurs University of California at Berkeley
Nachiket Bhawe University of Minnesota Prior Knowledge, Opportunity Recognition, and the Variability of Entrepreneurial Firms University of Minnesota
Meg Blume-Kohout RAND Pardee Graduate School Assessing the Impact of Federal R&D Funding on Pharmaceutical Innovation RAND Pardee Graduate School
Ian Michael Breunig Colorado State University The Effects of Health on Transitions to Entrepreneurship Colorado State University
Gharad Bryan Yale University The Impact of Risk Sharing on the Adoption of New Technologies Yale University
Emily Cox Stanford University What Type of Investor is Best? Funding Innovation in Young Firms Stanford University
Martin Ganco University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Influence of Modularity and Overlap of Technology on Employee Entrepreneurship: Three Essays University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Deepak Hegde University of California at Berkeley Bargaining Power in Markets for Technology: Evidence from Licensing Data University of California at Berkeley
Shon R. Hiatt Cornell University The Influence of Heterogeneous Institutional Actors on New Venture Foundings, Technological Variation, and Survival in the U.S. Biodiesel Industry Cornell University
Mingfeng Lin University of Maryland Borrowing from Strangers: An Empirical Investigation of Online Peer-to-Peer Lending for Entrepreneurs University of Maryland
Kathleen Marker University of California at San Diego The Role of Religion and Ethnicity in Business Networking: A Study of Arab American Entrepreneurs University of California at San Diego
Jason M. O’Connor Northwestern University Endogenous Technological Competition: The Impact of Open Science and Market Size on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Agricultural Biotechnology Northwestern University
Lori Santikian Harvard University Dissecting Bank Lending to Small Businesses: The Role of Connections and Cross-Selling in Credit Allocation Harvard University
Edward Smith University of Chicago Organizational Identity and Survival in the Hedge Fund Industry University of Chicago
Margarita Tsoutsoura Columbia University Inheritance Tax Law and Inter-Generational Family Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Columbia University
  2008
Name Degree Institution Dissertation Title Current Institution
David Benson University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Corporate Venture Capital and the Market to Acquire Entrepreneurial Firms Brigham Young University
Brian J. Broughman University of California at Berkeley Opportunistic Conduct and Governance Structure in Startup Firms Indiana University Bloomington
Michael Ciuchta University of Wisconsin - Madison Learning and Identity in New Technology Organizations University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jason Greenberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology Three Essays on Social Networks and Entrepreneurship Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher Hayter George Washington University Public University Spinoffs: Perspectives on Success and Failure from Academic Entrepreneurs National Governors Association
Anna A. Levine Stanford University Understanding Incentives in Health Care Harvard University
Christopher Liu Harvard University Trickle-down Entrepreneurship: Prior Mentorship and the Transmission of Norms Harvard University
Matt Marx Harvard University Essays on Employee Non-compete Agreements Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Naranchimeg Mijid Colorado State University Gender, Race, and Credit Rationing of Small Businesses: Empirical Evidence from the 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances Colorado State University
Shane Moser University of Kansas Does Diversity Among Co-investing Venture Capital Firms add Value for Entrepreneurial Companies? University of Kansas
Romel Mostafa Carnegie Mellon University Economic Growth One Industry at a Time: Entrepreneurship in the Bangladesh Garment Industry Washington University in St. Louis
Yongwook Paik University of California at Berkeley Serial Entrepreneurs and New Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Venture-backed Semiconductor Firms University of Southern California
Kelly Patterson Cornell University Vetting the Entrepreneur: A Multi-Dimensional Study of Information, Trust, and New Ventures Cornell University
Sarah Thébaud Cornell University Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Cultural Legitimacy: A Cross National Study of Gender Inequality in Venture Creation Cornell University
Yanbo Wang Massachusetts Institute of Technology Essays on Returnee Entrepreneurship Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erez Yoeli University of Chicago Does Social Approval Stimulate Prosocial Behavior? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Residential Electricity Market University of Chicago
  2007
Name Degree Institution Dissertation Title Current Institution
Pao-Lien Chen University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign The Performance Implications of the Evolution of Managerial Capabilities in the Context of Industry Evolution National Chengchi University
Joshua M. Drucker University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Regional Dominance and Industrial Success: A Productivity-Based Analysis University of Illinois at Chicago
Charles E. Eesley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrepreneurial Ventures from Technology-Based Universities: a Cross-National Comparison Stanford University
Andrew M. Hess Georgia Institute of Technology Essays on Dynamic Capabilities: The Role of Intellectual Human Capital on Firm Innovation University of Virginia
Adam M. Kleinbaum Harvard University The Social Structure of Organization: Coordination in a Large, Multi-Business Firm Harvard University
Karthik Krishnan Boston College How does Venture Capital Financing Improve Efficiency in Private Firms? A Look Beneath the Surface Northeastern University
Marlena I. Lee University of Chicago Do Employers Value Entrepreneurial Human Capital? An empirical study of post-self-employment wages Dimensional Fund Advisors
Jake Messersmith University of Kansas Transforming Caterpillars into Butterflies: The Role of Managerial Values and HR Systems in the Performance of Emergent Organizations George Washington University
Ethan Mollick Massachusetts Institute of Technology Essays on Individuals and Organizations University of Pennsylvania
Christina Moon Yale University Designing Daughters: Korean Fashion Designers and the New York and Los Angeles Apparel Industry Yale University
Eric J. Neuman University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Development of the Competitive Local Telephone Service Industry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sangchan Park Cornell University Is Legitimacy Contagious? The Collective Legitimation of Alternative Therapies in the U.S. Hospital Industry National University of Singapore
Elaine C. Rideout North Carolina State University Evaluating Entrepreneurial Education Impacts: Mediators of Successful High-Tech Entrepreneurial Education Initiatives North Carolina State University
Christopher I. Rider University of California-Berkeley Network Positions and Processes: Evidence from U.S. Private Equity Emory University
Ting Zhang George Mason University It's Never Too Late: Elderly Entrepreneurship in the Aging Economy University of Baltimore
  2006
Name Degree Institution Dissertation Title Current Institution
Jurgita Baltrušaityté-Axelson University of Illinois-Chicago The Opportunity Recognition Process, New Business Start-Up Motivators and Outcomes: The Real Options Approach Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies
Sandip Basu University of Washington Corporate Venture Capital: Towards Understanding Who Does It, Why and How California State University - Hayward
Ola Bengtsson University of Chicago Repeated Relationships between Founders and Venture Capitalists Cornell University
Amy E. Davis University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill More (or Less) than the Sums of their Parts? Status, Teams, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes College of Charleston
Benjamin L. Hallen Stanford University The Origin of the Network Positions of New Organizations: How Entrepreneurs Raise Funds University of Maryland
Poonam Khanna University of Texas-Austin The Downside of Repeated Ties: Syndicated Venture Capital Investments Arizona State University
Adriana Kocornik-Mina George Mason University Effects of Space on Inter-State Growth Dynamics and Income Disparities in India - Modeling the Simultaneous Growth of a System of Spatial Units George Mason University
Elena Loutskina Boston College How Do Corporate Venture Capitalists Create Value For Entrepreneurial Firms? University of Virginia
Yang Lu New York University Networking as a Barrier to Entry and the Competitive Supply of Venture Capital Barclays Capital
Denisa Mindruta University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Markets For Research: A Matching Approach to University-Industry Research Collaborations HEC Paris - School of Management
Ramana Nanda Massachusetts Institute of Technology Essays in Entrepreneurial Finance Harvard University
Evan Rawley University of California-Berkeley Organization and Performance: Evidence from Microdata University of Pennsylvania
Nikolai Roussanov University of Chicago Diversification and its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status University of Pennsylvania
Henry Sauermann Duke University Individual Incentives as Drivers of Innovative Processes and Performance Georgia Institute of Technology
Jifeng Yu Georgia State University Network Effects on New Venture Internationalization: A Network-Knowledge Framework University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf University of Kentucky The Effectiveness of Entrepreneurial Start-Up Assistance Programs: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics Old Dominion University
  2005
Name Degree Institution Dissertation Title Current Institution
Aaron Kumar Chatterji* University of California-Berkeley Empirical Essays on Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility Duke University
Tami Gurley-Calvez University of Tennessee-Knoxville Tax Policies and Entrepreneurship: Relative Tax Rates and Health Insurance Deductibility West Virginia University
Shan He Boston College Three Essays in Corporate Finance Louisiana State University
Brandon H. Lee Cornell University Cultivating the Niche: A Study of the Origins and Consequences of Standards-Based Certification Organizations in the U.S. Organic Food Industry London Business School
Matthew R. Marvel University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign A Knowledge-Based View of the Venture Creation Process: How Technology Entrepreneurs Mix Knowledge to Create Radical Innovations Western Kentucky University
Maija Renko Florida International University The Role of Market Knowledge in Recognizing and Exploiting Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Technology Intensive Firms University of Illinois at Chicago
Henry Renski University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill An Investigation of the Industrial Ecology of Business Start-up Survival University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Carlos Emiliano Salinas Harvard University Political and Social Roots of Economic Vices and Virtues: Evidence from Mexico Harvard University 
Krishnamurthy Subramanian University of Chicago Boundary Decisions and Financing Choices in Human Capital Intensive Firms: Theory and Evidence Emory University
Yinghong (Susan) Wei University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Market Orientation and Successful New Product Innovation: The Role of Competency Traps Oklahoma State University
  2004
Name Degree Institution Dissertation Title Current Institution
Michael J. Fern University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Towards a Dynamic Model of Founding: Unlocking the Origins of Organizational Variation Santa Clara University
Richard John Gentry University of Florida Aspiration and Real Options: A Behavioral Theory of Strategic Decision Making West Virginia University
Brett Anitra Gilbert Indiana University The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance Texas A&M University
Denis Grégoire University of Colorado Opportunity Acknowledgement as a Cognitive Process of Pattern Recognition and Structural Alignment Georgia State University
Sean M. Hackett Vanderbilt University Real Options and the Option to Incubate: An Exploratory Study of the Process of Business Incubation Drexel University
Justin Marion University of Chicago Costs and Benefits of Affirmative Action in California Government Contracting University of California Santa Cruz
Jeff D. Rosenberger Stanford University The Flip Side of the Coin: Nascent Technology Ventures and Corporate Venture Funding Nomis Solutions
Jennifer M. Sequeira University of Texas-Arlington The Effect of Network Ties and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy on Immigrant New Venture Intentions University of Southern Mississippi
Marco Tortoriello Carnegie Mellon University The Social Underpinnings of Absorptive Capacity: External Knowledge, Social Networks, and Individual Innovativeness HEC Paris
Geraldine A. Wu Columbia University The Interdependence of Organizational Knowledge and Financing: Studies of Technological Innovation, Learning, and Corporate Restructuring in U.S. Medical Device Ventures New York University
  2003
Name Degree Institution Dissertation Title Current Institution
Kenneth Andrew Colwell University of Oregon The Structure of Alliance Networks in Nascent Organizational Fields: The Case of Nanotechnology Drexel University
Waverly W. Ding* University of Chicago Four Essays on the Formation and Evolution of U.S. Biotechnology Companies University of California at Berkeley
Benedict Kemmerer University of Kansas Individual Cognition and the Resource-Based View: Investigating the Way Entrepreneurs Conceptualize, Categorize, and Judge Resources Bain & Company
Elaine L. Krumpelman-Farmer University of Missouri-Columbia The Investment Horizon Issue in User-Owned Organizations Park University
Mark (Huanliang) Liu Boston College How Should Entrepreneurs Sell Equity in Initial Public Offerings? Fixed-Price Offerings Versus IPO Auctions: Three Essays in Corporate Finance University of Kentucky
Jeffery S. McMullen University of Colorado-Boulder Entrepreneurial Decision Making and The Firm's Propensity for Novel Action: A Regulatory Focus Perspective Indiana University
Michael D. Meeks University of Colorado-Boulder Antecedents to the Entrepreneurial Decision: An Empirical Analysis of Three Predictive Models San Francisco State University
Andrew Mongar Temple University A Knowledge Based Model of Cooperation for Smaller Firms: Lessons From Chinese and US Comparisons American Genius Corporation
Kelley A. Packalen Stanford University You Can't Leave Your Past Behind: The Influence of Founders' Career Histories on their Firms Queen's School of Business
M. Julia Prats Harvard University The Entrepreneurial Boom and Bust Phenomenon Sustaining Superior Performance through a Boom and Bust Cycle: Inter-Firm Differences University of Navarra
Mina Yoo University of Michigan Social Networks and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley University of Washington