INSEAD Doriot Entrepreneurship Conference

Call for Papers 

We are seeking high-quality submissions employing diverse theoretical perspectives and methods, exploring a broad range of entrepreneurial contexts and phenomena including new venture creation, funding, leadership and team dynamics in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial decision-making, scaling up, gazelles, and corporate entrepreneurship, to mention a few.

Special consideration will be given to proposals focusing on topics such as:

a) gender and entrepreneurship

b) entrepreneurship in emerging economies

c) experiments in entrepreneurship

Submission information: Please send your submission through this online form: Submission Form

Submission Deadline: Tuesday 17 January 2023, 23:59 in your time zone.

Acceptance Notification: Wednesday 15th February 2023.

Submission Requirement: 5-page abstract, plus up to two pages for references, in Microsoft Word format.

Presentation Requirement: Authors will be required to submit a full manuscript by May 15th so that the discussant has ample time to provide comments.

Questions? Please direct questions about the conference to one of the organizers at: [email protected] or [email protected]

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How to get to INSEAD Asia Campus

INSEAD Asia Campus is situated at the corner of the Ayer Rajah Avenue and North Buona Vista Road in the Knowledge Hub district of Singapore. The school’s convenient location is 15 minutes from the financial district and 30 minutes from Changi Airport.

Asia Campus
1 Ayer Rajah Avenue
138676 Singapore
Tel : +65 6799 5388
Fax: +65 6799 5399

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Georges Frederic Doriot
(September 1899 – June 1987)

Georges Doriot was one of the first American venture capitalists. An émigré from France, Doriot became director of the U.S. Army's Military Planning Division, Quartermaster General, during World War II, eventually being promoted to brigadier general. In 1946, he founded American Research and Development Corporation, the world's first publicly owned venture capital firm, earning him the sobriquet "father of venture capitalism". In 1957, he founded INSEAD, the world's top global graduate business school with campuses in Fontainebleau (France), Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

Youth, education and military service

Doriot was born in Paris, France in 1899, to Berthe Camille Baehler and Auguste Doriot the pioneering motorist, racer, engineer, factory manager, dealer and car manufacturer (owner of D.F.P.). Doriot enlisted in the French army in 1920. He immigrated to America to earn an MBA and stayed on, becoming a professor at the Harvard Business School in 1926. He became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and the following year was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. As Director of the Military Planning Division for the Quartermaster General, he worked on military research, development and planning, eventually being promoted to brigadier general.

ARDC and the Father of Venture Capital

In 1946, Doriot returned to Harvard and the same year he founded American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC), one of the first two venture capital firms along with Ralph Flanders and Karl Compton (former president of MIT), to encourage private sector investments in businesses run by soldiers who were returning from World War II. ARDC's significance was primarily that it was the first institutional private equity investment firm that accepted money from sources other than wealthy families although it had several notable investment successes as well.

In 1957, Doriot founded INSEAD, the world's top global graduate business school in France with a group of his former Harvard MBA students.

ARDC is credited with the first major venture capital success story when its 1957 investment of $70,000 in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) would be valued at over $355 million after the company's initial public offering in 1968 (representing a return of over 5000 times on its investment and an annualized rate of return of 101%). Until his death, Doriot remained friends with Ken Olsen, Digital's founder.

Later years

ARDC continued investing until 1971 with the retirement of Doriot. In 1972, Doriot merged ARDC with Textron after investing in over 150 companies. For his role in the founding of ARDC Doriot is often referred to as the "father of venture capitalism".

Doriot died of lung cancer in 1987 in Boston, Massachusetts.