Extraordinary Feats of Entrepreneurial Enterprise: Sustaining Rapid Growth

Speaker : Assoc Prof. S. Venkataraman Samuel L. Slover Associate Professor of Business Administration Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia

Date : June 23, 1999 (Wednesday)

Time : 4.00 pm - 6.00 pm

Venue : Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Auditorium Faculty of Business Administration

Abstract

Prof. Venkataraman will present some preliminary findings of extraordinary growth of several industrial enterprises in USA. These are firms founded in the last 30 years and, in a short time, succeeded in entering the Fortune 500 list; becoming some of the largest industrial firms in the USA. Growth of this magnitude and scale represents some of the most extraordinary feats of entrepreneurial enterprise in the last few decades. Measured in any terms, share of new job creation, new wealth creation, or technical innovation, these firms contribute massively to societal welfare, and, therefore, deserve further attention. This exploratory and descriptive seminar seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of their growth process.

About the Speaker

Prof. Venkataraman earned a Ph.D. from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta, and a master's degree in economics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. His research work has been published in a variety of academic journals and he is the editor of the Journal of Business Venturing, a leading entrepreneurship journal. He is also the Director of Research of the Batten Center of Entrepreneurial Leadership. Prof. Venkataraman held the Warren H. Bruggeman ?6 and Pauline Urban Bruggeman Distinguished Associate Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to that he was Paul Yeakel Term Assistant Professor of management at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. During his tenure, he developed courses in entrepreneurship, corporate venturing and corporate and business strategy. He has conducted extensive research and has consulted with companies in these areas as well. He has also worked in corporate and business planning with Wipro Products Ltd., a leading high-tech., high growth company in India. He was responsible for producing the annual and three-year plans and coordinating new business development in the information technology business of the company.

We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend the talk. Light refreshments will be available from 3.30pm - 4.00pm. As there are limited number of seats available, we will appreciate it if you could e-mail joannesim@nus.edu.sg with a confirmed number of attendees from your organisation by 16 June 1999. Attendance is free.