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Congratulations to Smith PhD and Faculty
Researchers
Several exciting new Smith School research
projects received awards to continue the
progress in the school’s first Entrepreneurship
Research Competition Awards, sponsored by
the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship.
Smith faculty and PhD students were invited
to submit published research, working papers
and preliminary research in the area of
entrepreneurship to compete for funding
awards in the contest. Grants totaling $7,000
were awarded in three categories: PhD Student
Research in Progress, PhD Student Working
Paper, and Faculty/Student Journal Acceptance.
PhD Student - Research in Progress
- Winner ($1000): Mingfeng
Lin, Siva Viswanathan, Borrowing
from Strangers: An Empirical Investigation
of Online Peer-to-Peer Financial Lending
for Entrepreneurs
- Finalist ($500): R. Scott
Livengood, Entrepreneurial Actions
vs. Institutions: Examining Market Discourse
and the Market Process
PhD Student - Working Paper
- Winner ($1500): Sheetal
Singh, Practical Intelligence
of High Potential Entrepreneurs: Antecedents
and Links to New Venture Growth
- Finalist ($500): David
Lanier Major, R. Scott Livengood, David
Waguespack, Anil Gupta,
Vicarious Learning in the Globalization
of Venture Capital
- Finalist ($500): Alan
D. Boss, J. Robert Baum, Jay B. Carson,
Entrepreneurs’ Change Behaviors and
Subsequent Venture Performance: Adaptation,
Bricolage, Experimentation, Improvisation,
and Trial and Error
Faculty / Student - Journal Acceptance
- Winner ($2500):
Benjamin L. Hallen, The Causes
and Consequences of the Initial Network
Positions of New Organizations: From
Whom do Entrepreneurs Receive Investments
- Semi-Finalist ($500):
Azi Gera, David Kirsch, Brent Goldfarb,
Form or Substance: The Role of Business
Plans in Venture Capital Decision Making
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