Four Mindsets of Designer-Entrepreneurs

Energy issues challenge mindsets …

president, turned up in Cannes last month to promote his new documentary on the dangers of global warming, amid speculation that he may stage a political comeback on the basis of an issue which is increasingly dividing George Bush's administration and the Democrat opposition in the face of rising fuel prices. He arrived in France to showcase An Inconvenient Truth, a film that issues alarming pr...

Running Head: MULTICULTURAL EXPERIENCES AND MINDSETS The Relation of Multicultural Experiences to Moral Judgment and Mindsets

Multicultural experience is considered to be beneficial, but it remains a difficult construct to measure. We tested the validity of a new assessment tool, the Multicultural Experiences Questionnaire (MEQ), using an undergraduate sample (N = 164), and examined the relation of multicultural experience to moral judgment, closed-mindedness, growth and fixed mindsets. We expected that greater multic...

Mindsets and Math/Science Achievement

Eponymous Entrepreneurs

We demonstrate that firm eponymy—the familiar convention of firms being named after their owners—is linked to superior performance. We propose a novel explanation, referred to as “utility amplification,” and develop a corresponding signaling model. The model generates three main empirical predictions: (1) The incidence of eponymy will be low; (2) Eponymous firms will outperform other firms; (3)...

The Quality of Entrepreneurs*

What determines the quality of entrepreneurs? The article proposes a model of the interaction between individual workers decision to become entrepreneurs and employers efforts to keep their best workers and ideas. The main prediction from the model is that larger firms produce entrepreneurs of higher quality than smaller firms. Using novel and unique Norwegian data, I find that previous employe...