Research Talks

Our successful research talk series has delivered valuable collaborations between the GCEI and our renowned guest researchers. This series serves to provide entrepreneurship, family business and innovation researchers a forum for mutual exchange and dialogue about their subjects of interest, while offering HSG young researchers (PhD students and postdocs) opportunities for individual consulting and mentorship.

Upcoming research talks

Prof. Gerard George (Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University), "Grand challenges and management research", 25 May 2018

Prof. Frédéric Delmar (Lund University), "Modelling new firm growth and survival: Some practical solutions", 29 May 2018

Prof. Thomas Zellweger (Global Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation/Center for Family Business, University of St.Gallen), “Property rights and economic value creation in the owner-managed firm”, 30 May 2018

Prof. Dean Shepherd (University of Notre Dame), “My journey in entrepreneurship research”, 30 May 2018

Previous research talks

2018

Prof. Vangelis Souitaris (Global Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of St.Gallen), "Should I stay or should I go: Founders' power and exit via an IPO", 26 March 2018

Ass.-Prof. Emre Soyer (INSEAD/Özyeğin University), “Deceived by experience: How to learn the right lessons”, 19 February 2018

Prof. Carlo Salvato (Università Bocconi), “The effects of subtle leadership cues on status conferral in family firm succession processes”, 24 January 2018

Assoc.-Prof. Theresa Treffers (Technical University of Munich/Privatuniversität Schloss Seeburg), “Feel, learn, perform! The effects of team affective diversity on team learning and performance”, 18 January 2018

Assoc.-Prof. Kristina Nyström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), “Labour mobility in the aftermath of displacement: Understanding the effect on entrepreneurship”, 17 January 2018

2017

Prof. Holger Patzelt (Entrepreneurship Research Institute at Technical University of Munich), "Communities of inquiry and development paths of entrepreneurial opportunities", 19 October 2017

Prof. Howard E. Aldrich (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Entrepreneurship in the making? The entrepreneurial implications of the maker movement", 31 May 2017

2016

Ass.-Prof. Patricio Durán (University Adolfo Ibáñez), "Political ideologies and the internationalization of family-controlled firms", 3 November 2016

Prof. Barbara Bird (Kogod School of Business, American University), "Entrepreneurial behavior: What we know and what we don’t know", 13 October 2016

Prof. Pursey Heugens (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University), "Finding resilience in fragility: Intergenerational values transfer in family firms", 27 October 2016

Prof. Joakim Wincent (Hanken School of Economics/Luleå University of Technology), "Future innovation leadership: Current inputs for the strategic planning process", 28 September 2016

Assoc.-Prof. Miguel Meuleman (Vlerick Business School), “When the going gets tough: Using multiple agency theory and the resource-based view to explain outcomes of financial distress in buyouts", 12 May 2016

Assoc.-Prof. Denis Grégoire (HEC Montréal/Visiting professor at the University of St.Gallen), "Modeling internationalization opportunities: Evidence from entrepreneurs' decisions", 17 May 2016

Roxana Turturea (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University), "Top management team attributes, bricolage and ambidexterity in small and medium-sized enterprises", 13 April 2016