Kelly Ifill ’17 chats about career pivots, community, and her commitment to supporting Black and brown entrepreneurs.
Understanding how a digital identity and an engaged audience can create powerful influence across industries
‘For me, it’s definitely about finding my inspiration through things like personal pain points.’
We investigate the impact of reporting regulation on corporate innovation. Exploiting thresholds in Europe’s regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing firms to publicly disclose their financial statements discourages innovative activities. Our evidence suggests that reporting regulation has significant real effects by imposing proprietary costs on innovative firms, which in turn diminish their incentives to innovate.
We investigate underlying sources of the US entrepreneurial ecosystem's advantage compared to other innovative economies by assessing the benefits Israeli startups derive from migrating to the US. Addressing positive sorting into migration, we show that migrants raise larger funding amounts and are more likely to have a US trademark and be acquired than non-migrants. Migrants also achieve a higher acquisition value. However, their patent output is not larger.
In this Bizcast episode, director of the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School Lara Hejtmanek ’99 discusses how the School supports students and alumni in their entrepreneurial journeys.
Angela W. Lee, faculty director at the Lang Center, answers our questions about the role limited partners play in the world of venture capital, what LPs seek from partnerships with VCs, and how investment strategies have changed in recent years.
Angela W. Lee, faculty director at the Lang Center, shares advice on how to excel as a venture capital investor.
