Past Conferences
Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
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Organized by F. Christopher Eaglin (Duke University) and Tarek Ghani (Washington University in St. Louis)
Friday, May 8, 2026
Knight Center Executive Dining Room, 3rd Floor
Classroom 220
Rodrigo Canales, Caroline Fry, Shon Hiatt, Jiao Luo
Moderated by Tarek Ghani
Kate Nissen, Shubham Singh, Ruby Mittal, Rowan Clarke
Moderated by Stefan Dimitriadis
- Amisha Miller (New York University, Stern) — Identifying the Sources of Disparity in Investment Decisions: Experimenting with Avatars
- Solene Delecourt (UC Berkeley, Haas) — Too Close to Home: Women’s Business Location and the Gender Profit Gap
- Geoffrey Borchhardt (University of Oregon, Lundquist) — Women’s Work: Identifying Drivers of the Gender Earnings Gap in Global Microenterprise
Knight Center Executive Dining Room
- Pete Younkin (University of Oregon, Lundquist) — Accelerators or Brakes? A Field Experiment on Encouraging Entrepreneurship in Morocco
- Audra Wormald (University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler) — From Monoliths to Mosaics: Pathways to Growth for Microenterprise Entrepreneurs
- Liz Lyons (UC San Diego, GPS) — Data-Driven Learning and Firm Performance: Experimental Evidence from SMEs in Kenya
- Thomaz Teodorovicz (Copenhagen Business School) — Strategies at Entry of For-Profit and Non-Profit Firms in Public Services: Insights from Brazilian Higher Education
- Wesley Koo (Johns Hopkins University, Carey) — Community-Based Versus Platform-Wide Motivation: A Field Experiment on Recycling Deposits and Entrepreneurship in Lagos, Nigeria
- Diana Jue-Rajasingh (Rice University, Jones) — When CSR Spending Doesn’t Deliver: Political Alignment and Implementation Distortion in India
Leke Jegede, HK Park, Amrita Saha, Yuqing Tang
Moderated by Thomaz Teodorovicz
Daniella Laureiro Martinez, Aruna Ranganathan, Markus Taussig,
Minyuan Zhao
Moderated by Natalie Carlson
O’Donnell Lounge, Knight Center
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Knight Center Executive Dining Room, 3rd Floor
- Aparajita Agarwal (INSEAD) — Relational Constraints and Agent Trade-Offs at the Last Mile: Evidence from a Digital Platform in India
- Natalie Carlson (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton) — AI and Entrepreneurial Search: A Field Experiment in Zimbabwe
- Britta Glennon (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton) — Production and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge: Evidence from the Turkish Failed Coup
- Chris Eaglin (Duke University, Fuqua) — Informal Governance and Resilience in the South African Taxi Industry
- Stefan Dimitriadis (University of Toronto, Rotman) — Bridging Ethnic Divides: How Ethnically Diverse Interactions Improve Entrepreneurial Performance
Heather Berry, Seth Carnahan, Lamar Pierce
Moderated by Christopher Eaglin
Knight Center Executive Dining Room, 3rd Floor
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
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Friday, April 25, 2025
Fleck Atrium
Fleck Atrium
Laura Doering, Chris Yenkey, Rodrigo Canales, Shon Hiatt
Moderated by Ryann Manning · Fleck Atrium
Aparajita Agarwal, Grady Raines, Zahra Hejrati, Shubham Singh, Roy Huang · Fleck Atrium
RSM 142 and RSM 147
- Aline Gatignon — They Don’t Care About Us: Sequencing Public and Private Actions to Unlock Socioeconomic Growth in Disadvantaged Communities
- Greg Distelhorst — How Much Do Workers Value Supply Chain CSR? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Morocco
- Jose Uribe — Learning by Helping: Evidence from Chinese Brokerages’ Community CSR
- Sandro Cabral — Stakeholder Value Creation and Allocation Under External Market Pressures: An Analysis of the Brazilian Meat Industry
- Chris Poliquin — Centralization and Redeployment
- Nataliya Wright — The Impact of Communicating Strategy on Employee Ideas: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Experiment
- Thomaz Teodorovicz — Digital Solutions to Access-Oriented Grand Challenges: Remote Learning, Comparative Governance, and the Access-Quality Trade-Off
- Arzi Adbi — How Do Domestic and Foreign Firms Respond to a Reduction in Competition from the Public Sector? Evidence from Vaccine Markets in India
Fleck Atrium
RSM 142 and RSM 147
- Christopher Eaglin — Drivers of Default: How Input Utilization and Loan Repayment Respond to Randomized Debt Restructuring and Other Shocks
- Ussama Ahmad Khan — Humanizing Poverty Alleviation
- Markus Taussig — Incentivizing Lending to Women Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam
- Robert Nason — The Social Construction of Political Risk: How Narratives Shape Africa’s Perception Premium and Constrain Foreign Investment
- Diana Jue-Rajasingh — How Local Entrepreneurs Shape Low-Income Countries’ Emerging Industries for Social Innovations
- Valentina Assenova — Beyond Technology Adoption: The Critical Role of Digital Technology Integration in SME Growth and Scalability
- Tarek Ghani — Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan
- Wesley Koo — Reemergence of the Pearl Industry Through Live-Streaming
Rowan Clarke, Angelo Bello, Esam Boraey, Priyam Saraf · Fleck Atrium
Lourdes Casanova
Anita McGahan, Wes Sine, Jordan Siegel
Moderated by Stefan Dimitriadis · Fleck Atrium
Fleck Atrium
Fleck Atrium
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Fleck Atrium
Amrita Saha, Peter Polhill, Stefan Ivanovski, Andrew Foley
- Diana Dakhlallah — Wages That Bind: How Do Social and Financial Incentives Interact to Shape Workers’ Decision to Take Bribes in Organizations?
- Kunyuan Qiao — From Armed Roots to Airline Routes: Stakeholder Imprinting and Entrepreneurial Geographic Expansion
- Everlyne Misati — What Motivates Informal Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets to Formalize Their Ventures?
- Stefan Dimitriadis — Entrepreneurship, Family Embeddedness, and Participative Management: Transforming Constraints into Resources for Entrepreneurs in Togo
- Muntasir Shami — The Effect of Parental Transmission of Entrepreneurship on Small and Micro-Enterprise Sales Performance
Valentina Assenova, Chris Eaglin
Brian Silverman, Lamar Pierce, Dan Wang, Sandro Cabral,
Sinziana Dorobantu
Moderated by Aline Gatignon
The conference was sponsored by the Rotman School of Management; the doctoral student sessions were sponsored by the Cornell Emerging Markets Institute.
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
