stronger among males than females. Further, we examine the causal impact of homophily on team performance. Homophily in … ethnicity increases team performance by lifting teams in bottom quantiles to median performance quantiles, but it does not … entrepreneurship and venture capital industry …

the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that …, firms in competitive industries experience no significant effect. When we examine which agency problem competition mitigates …

diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …

We explore the role of founding teams in accounting for the post-entry dynamics of startups. While the entrepreneurship … created at firm formation and is inalienable from the founding team itself. To test this hypothesis, we exploit premature … deaths to identify the causal impact of losing a founding team member on startup performance. We find that the exogenous …

effects are due to increased competition for local resources …