Entrepreneurial Management
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- April 2025
- Case
The CHIPS Program Office (Abridged)
By: Mitch Weiss and Sebastian Negron-ReichardIn February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo weighed signing off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) with at least one unconventional provision: a pre-application (“pre-app”) to the actual application for parts of $39 billion in direct semiconductor manufacturing incentives. The funding had been made available through the U.S. Department of Commerce by the CHIPS and Science Act (“CHIPS”) passed a few months earlier. Her team had also proposed additional measures for the NOFO. They’d added upside sharing provisions to align incentives. They’d included funding milestones so that only awardees making progress would receive additional funds. And they’d drafted a rolling process, so apps didn’t have to be evaluated all at once. Each mechanism, along with the pre-apps, they hoped, would help regain U.S. technological leadership while protecting taxpayer funds. Raimondo would have to decide whether the NOFO as conceived set the stage to do precisely that.
- April 2025
- Case
The CHIPS Program Office (Abridged)
By: Mitch Weiss and Sebastian Negron-ReichardIn February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo weighed signing off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) with at least one unconventional provision: a pre-application (“pre-app”) to the actual application for parts of $39 billion in direct semiconductor manufacturing incentives. The funding had been made available through the U.S....
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- April 2025
- Case
Sharon Goldberg and BastionZero
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, James Barnett and Maxim Pike Harrell- April 2025
- Case
Sharon Goldberg and BastionZero
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- 2025
- Working Paper
Navigating Choppy Waters: How U.S. Trade Policy Uncertainty Affects Small Businesses
By: David Atkin, Zoë Cullen and Ebehi IyohaThis paper explores the impact of recent changes in the US trade policy environment on small businesses. Drawing on a survey of more than 4,000 small businesses conducted between March 22 and 31, 2025, we examine firms’ knowledge, expectations, and decisions during a period of substantial trade policy uncertainty. Our findings reveal widespread knowledge gaps about current tariffs, even among internationally exposed firms. Most businesses expect continued policy uncertainty throughout 2025, anticipate reduced sales and increased costs, face limited options for mitigating tariff-induced cost increases, and do not expect government assistance in facilitating adaptation. These results highlight the vulnerability of small businesses, which represent a significant share of US economic activity, to rapid trade policy changes and suggest the need for clear policy communication and targeted support mechanisms.
- 2025
- Working Paper
Navigating Choppy Waters: How U.S. Trade Policy Uncertainty Affects Small Businesses
By: David Atkin, Zoë Cullen and Ebehi IyohaThis paper explores the impact of recent changes in the US trade policy environment on small businesses. Drawing on a survey of more than 4,000 small businesses conducted between March 22 and 31, 2025, we examine firms’ knowledge, expectations, and decisions during a period of substantial trade policy uncertainty. Our findings reveal widespread...
About the Unit
The Entrepreneurial Management Unit strives to raise the level of academic work in the field of entrepreneurship, in methodological rigor, conceptual depth, and managerial applicability. We also strive to improve the odds of entrepreneurial success for our students and for practitioners worldwide.
Because it is such a complex phenomenon, entrepreneurship must be studied through multiple lenses. We use three.
- The process of entrepreneurship - We seek to understand the processes of entrepreneurial activity in start-ups and established firms by examining the antecedents and consequences of various forms of entrepreneurial opportunity identification and opportunity pursuit for individuals, organizations, and industries. We see experimentation and innovation in products, services, processes, and business models as central to entrepreneurial activity.
- The finance of entrepreneurship - We seek to understand the financing of entrepreneurial ventures by studying the antecedents and consequences of entrepreneurial funding decisions both domestically and internationally.
- The context of entrepreneurship - We seek to understand the ways in which entrepreneurs both respond to and shape the context in which they operate, by examining the history of entrepreneurship across time and national borders and by analyzing the legal and cultural contexts for managerial action.
Please also visit the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
Recent Publications
Influencer-led brand building: Hairitage and the McKnights
- April 2025 |
- Supplement |
- Faculty Research
The CHIPS Program Office (Abridged)
- April 2025 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Sharon Goldberg and BastionZero
- April 2025 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Duolingo: On a 'Streak'
- April 2025 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research
Navigating Choppy Waters: How U.S. Trade Policy Uncertainty Affects Small Businesses
- 2025 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Governors Reshaping Workforce Development: Turning WIOA Challenges into Workforce Solutions
- 2025 |
- White Paper |
- Faculty Research
Navigating Opportunity: Career Information and Mobility in Low-Wage Employment
- 2025 |
- White Paper |
- Faculty Research
Getting Value from Digital Technologies
- March–April 2025 |
- Article |
- European Business Review