Is Success In Our Genes or Is It Developed Through Time?
Experts debate the issue at TU?s College of Business and Economics
Dr. John Gartner, author of The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a little) Craziness in America, and Lloyd Shefsky J.D., author of Entrepreneurs are Made Not Born, will debate the issue ?Are Entrepreneurs Made or Born: The Hypomanic Temperament of American Entrepreneurs,? on Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. in Stephens Hall Theatre.
The lecture is the second of a series hosted by the College of Business and Economics Center for Applied Business and Economics Research (CABER) and is open to the community. Funding for the CBE Lecture Series was provided through the generosity of Bill and Helen Murray.
Dr. Gartner, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, believes that entrepreneurs are born, not made. Dr. Gartner?s view has appeared on a number of radio and television networks, including ABC, CNN, and BBC, on WYPR?s Marc Steiner Show and on WJZ-TV. In addition, Dr. Gartner?s work has been covered in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, Worth, Fortune, The Financial Times, The Sun, Style, and City Paper.
Shefsky, who believes that entrepreneurs are made, not born, is a clinical professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University?s Kellogg School of Management where he teaches the course he developed, “Successful Entrepreneurship.” He is a co-director and founder of the Kellogg School’s Center for Family Enterprises, as well as co-founder of the Kellogg School’s Center for Executive Women. Shefsky frequently appears before legal, accounting, government (both U.S. and foreign), businesses, education associations, and organizations relating to women in business. He served on the Wall Street Journal’s roundtable for small business and entrepreneurship and has been featured in a number of national and regional media including PBS, CNBC-TV, Entrepreneur, Pittsburg Business Times, San Jose Mercury News, Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal and others.
Both authors will be signing their books, which will be available for purchase. Admission is free and open to the community. For more information, please contact CBE?s Office of the Dean at (410) 704-3342.
