2090: Approaches to the Evaluation of Entrepreneurs, Ventures, and Ideas (17423)

Organizer(s)

• BT

  Brad Turner

  MIT Sloan School of Management, United States

Participant(s)

• WN

  Weiyi Ng

  National U. of Singapore, Singapore
• CB

  Cristiano Bellavitis

  Syracuse U. Whitman School of Management, United States
• LG

  Laura Giurge

  The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom

Organizer(s)

• EP

  Ethan Poskanzer

  U. of Colorado, United States

Discussant(s)

• YW

  Yanbo Wang

  HKU, Hong Kong

Presenter(s)

• DK

  Dana Kanze

  London Business School, United Kingdom
• SY

  Simon (Seongbin) Yoon

  U. of California, Irvine, United States
• ES

  Eliot Sherman

  London Business School, United Kingdom

Participant(s)

• ML

  Ming Leung

  U. of California, Irvine, United States
• UP

  Uisung Park

  Syracuse U., United States
• TB

  Tristan Botelho

  Yale School of Management, United States

The symposium’s goal is to bring together and showcase new research on how novel ideas, most prominently within entrepreneurship, are evaluated. This research informs which new individuals, ventures, and ideas are allocated resources and how inequality is produced in the opportunity to participate in innovation. We combine theoretical perspectives on how evaluators assess an idea’s quality under uncertainty and the mechanisms that inform evaluative outcomes, including work on structural conditions of an evaluation process.

Presentations:

• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2090: Do We Devalue Social? How Social Impact Shapes our Financial and Time Commitment to Training (17423)
  

  Author: Dana Kanze – London Business School
• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2090: Pitching Yarns: Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneur Storytelling (17423)
  

  Author: Brad Turner – MIT Sloan School of Management
• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2090: Evaluation Differences for Generalists across Multiple Hiring Stages (17423)
  

  Author: Ming De Leung – U. of California, Irvine

  Author: Simon (Seongbin) Yoon – U. of California, Irvine

  Author: Uisung David Park – Syracuse U.
• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2090: A Game of Chance? The Role of Luck in Evaluations of Entrepreneurial Ideas (17423)
  

  Author: Tristan L. Botelho – Yale School of Management

  Author: Ethan Poskanzer – U. of Colorado
• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2090: Internal Venture or External Founding? Organizational Determinants of Gender Differences (17423)
  

  Author: Weiyi Ng – National U. of Singapore

  Author: Eliot Sherman – London Business School