Impact of Alumni Entrepreneurship: Evidence from MIT and Tsinghua – 21 Jun

This 21st June, the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will bring Chuck Eesley, faculty member of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program to speak about “The impact of Alumni Entrepreneurship: Evidence from MIT and Tsinghua University”. NUS Entrepreneurship Centre is responsible for NUS Entreprise’s drive to provide opportunities for experiential learning of entrepreneurship within the NUS community. It reaches out to entrepreneurs and business executives by providing continuous learning programmes and courses.

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About The Speaker

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Chuck Eesley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and a faculty member at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Before Stanford, he earned his Ph.D. at the MIT Sloan School of Management. While an undergraduate at Duke he cofounded Sun Dance Genetics, and won their business plan competition with a biotech corn start-up, listed on Fortune small business. Since then he has worked in a Duke neuroscience lab, started a biotech consulting firm, worked with numerous pharmaceutical companies and two venture capital firms and mentored startups in the MIT 100K and Clean Energy competitions. His research appears in Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy and the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. Prior to MIT, he worked at the Duke University Medical Center, publishing in medical journals and in textbooks on cognition in schizophrenia.

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Event Details

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When: Tuesday, 21th June 2011
Time: 615pm-8pm
Where: NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd (Map)
Register here.
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