Tokyo, Japan, June 21–24, 2026 (main program June 22–23). Two accepted papers:
Keio University Mita Campus, Tokyo, Monday June 22, 2026, 5:30–7:00 PM. Hybrid (in person + Zoom). Hosted by the Keio Management Society. On how AI, institutional design, education systems, and policy environments shape entrepreneurial strategy, venture formation, and innovation outcomes.
Friday, November 20, 2026. Host: Cheng Gao. Strategy / entrepreneurship seminar series.
"Empirical Research on Engineering Entrepreneurship, Policy, and Capital Allocation"
November 1–4, 2026. Organizing an invited session co-sponsored by MSOM Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and TIMES (Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship). The session brings together empirical work on how U.S. export controls, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the evolving U.S.–China technological decoupling have reshaped where engineering ventures form, who funds them, and which technologies receive capital. Papers draw on administrative micro-data, longitudinal alumni surveys, and quasi-experimental designs across the semiconductor sector, advanced manufacturing, clean energy and climate technology, and underrepresented founder populations.
September 15, 2026. Likely presenting Subsidizing the supply side: Industrial policy, firm entry, and innovation in China's battery manufacturing sector (with Guankai Zhai).
Paper presentation at the 14th Annual Strategy Symposium on Emerging Markets, Rice Business, May 14, 2026 (with Guankai Zhai). Evidence that supply-side subsidies without capability screening attract more entrants — but the marginal firms are short-lived, non-innovative, and exit at elevated rates even in thriving battery clusters.
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, Washington, DC, April 2026. Presenter on the macroeconomics of research investment.
Joint Economic Committee staff briefing on industrial policy, export controls, and U.S.–China technology competition. Washington, DC, March 13, 2026.
Conference on national competitiveness and regional innovation ecosystems. Las Vegas, January 29–30, 2026.
Invited seminar, January 2026, on industrial policy and venture capital allocation under cross-border policy shocks.
Invited speaker at the Smart Technology Global Trends Forum (智慧科技全球趨勢論壇) at the Kaohsiung Smart Technology Innovation Park, sponsored by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Part of the long-running ITRI–Stanford partnership on advancing technology ventures and Taiwan's deep-tech innovation ecosystem.
Lightning talk at the FDS Workshop on AI for Social Science Research Methods, Yale University, May 22, 2026 (with Guankai Zhai; Chuck presenting). On how generative AI is reshaping social-science research design — from automated coding and synthetic experimentation to LLM-based content analysis of regulatory corpora.
Findings from the alumni survey with William F. Miller on the economic impact of Stanford-founded companies — the foundational study showing that companies founded by Stanford alumni generate trillions of dollars in revenue and millions of jobs globally. Stanford eCorner, 2012.
The MIT alumni-impact study with Edward B. Roberts (Chuck's doctoral advisor), and the methodological forerunner of the Stanford Innovation Study above. Found that companies founded by MIT alumni would, if grouped as an independent nation, generate roughly $2 trillion in annual worldwide sales — the 11th largest economy in the world at the time. Kauffman Foundation report, 2009.
Read the report on Kauffman.org ↗The third in the alumni-impact trilogy (after MIT 2009 and Stanford 2012), applying the same methodology to UVA. Survey of more than 135,000 UVA alumni (22,757 valid responses) found that the school's entrepreneurial graduates have launched roughly 65,000 companies, employing 2.3 million people worldwide and generating an estimated $1.6 trillion in annual global revenues — with disproportionate impact on the Virginia state economy. UVA Darden Batten Institute, 2014 (with Michael Lenox, Andrew King, and Asif Mehedi).
Read the full report (PDF) ↗Activist tactics and how firms get targeted for social change — when secondary stakeholder pressure tactics succeed in shifting firm behavior, and when they don't. Strategic Management Journal, 2016 (with Katherine DeCelles and Michael Lenox).
Read the paper ↗ · Watch the SMJ video abstract ↗How founding conditions shape whether ventures survive or thrive through environmental change. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2023 (with Motley and Koo).
Survey of 2,067 MIT alumni-founded ventures showing that all-technical founding teams have a 12.8% greater likelihood of favorable exit in cooperative business environments — challenging the conventional wisdom that diverse business skills always matter most. Strategic Management Journal, 2014 (with David Hsu and Edward B. Roberts).
Read the paper ↗Survey of 27,783 Stanford alumni asking what the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) at the GSB and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) at the Engineering School actually did to their entrepreneurship rates. The sobering finding: CES participation had a negative-to-zero effect on entrepreneurship rates and STVP participation had no effect — but CES participants saw lower startup failure and higher long-term firm revenue. Strategic Management Journal, 2021 (with Yong Suk Lee).
Stanford alumni survey examining how entrepreneurship rates differ by ethnicity and nationality, drawing on the 2011 Stanford Innovation Survey of more than 140,000 alumni. Asian American alumni are more entrepreneurial than white American alumni, but non-American Asian alumni are substantially less so — and parental entrepreneurship turns out to be a strong predictor regardless of group, with intergenerational persistence highest among non-American Asians. Policy implications for both U.S. immigration and how Asian countries pursue entrepreneurship promotion. Research Policy, 2018 (with Yong Suk Lee).
Read the paper ↗How founders in emerging economies use incubators, accelerators, and business associations to acquire public resources they couldn't otherwise reach. Strategic Management Journal, 2017 (with Armanios, Li, and Eisenhardt).
What China's regional economic transition tells us about which entrepreneurial strategies pay off when institutions shift. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2022 (with You (Willow) Wu and Delin Yang).
Market catalysts — incubators, science parks, junior stock exchanges — are designed to stimulate venture creation. Analysis of 19,000 firms in Japan shows they can produce unintended negative consequences: more competition and information asymmetry, ultimately fewer quality IPOs and less economic growth. Stanford eCorner conversation with Bob Eberhart on their Strategic Management Journal paper, 2018.
Evidence from a randomized experiment on the NovoEd MOOC platform — what kinds of mentor connections, and what kinds of adaptability, actually predict whether early-stage ventures succeed. MIS Quarterly, 2020 (with Lynn Wu).
Read the paper ↗Randomized field experiment embedded in an online accelerator program in Thailand — a five-year collaboration with AIS (Advanced Info Service) and KBank (Kasikornbank) — testing whether providing structured peer evaluations benefits the advice-giver, not just the receiver. With 166 early-stage startups across multiple cohorts (2021–2023), treatment teams gained an average +0.217 points on independent pitch-quality scores and +0.108 points on idea usefulness; no significant effect on idea novelty. Working paper, December 2024 (with Zhuoxuan Li and Jungyun Han).
Course preview for the flagship Stanford technology entrepreneurship course Chuck has taught since 2009.
The 27-lecture video collection on the Stanford YouTube channel was recorded for the online version of the course, which ran free for five years and reached more than 200,000 students worldwide, seeding many companies in its wake. The platform Chuck built to deliver it spun out as NovoEd, later acquired by Devonshire Investors / Fidelity.
MS&E 25th Anniversary, May 2025. Opening vision for STVP and closing reflections, bookending a fireside chat between Steve Blank and Riitta Katila.
Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs United, December 2021. A data-driven session for Stanford alumni angel investors — traits and behaviors of successful angels, historical analysis of past performance and returns, and what the institutional environment around technology entrepreneurship actually rewards.
Watch on YouTube ↗ETL podcast, September 2021. How entrepreneurship education affects students who never found a startup.
Listen on STVP ↗郝会DAILY interview series, July 2025. Conversation with Hao Yang (郝杨), Chairman of the Shenyang Fund Association (沈阳市基金业协会), on how Stanford and Silicon Valley grew up together — the talent magnet effect, the Google / PageRank licensing story, Lean Launchpad and Stanford's entrepreneurship pedagogy, the cultural tolerance for failure, the venture capital model and the pay-it-forward ethos, and the current openness questions around AI and immigration.
Angel Invest Boston with Sal Daher, Episode 82. On the MIT / Ed Roberts lineage, NovoEd, and what makes ecosystems work.
Listen on Angel Invest Boston ↗Creative Distillation podcast (Episode 78), CU Boulder Leeds School of Business, March 2025. Conversation with Rob Hahn (founder of Avanti) on the algorithmic financing of online misinformation, AI-era venture diligence, and what the institutional environment around founders actually shapes.
Listen on Creative Distillation ↗ETL, April 2022. Conversation with Irma Olguin Jr. and Morgan Simon on high-growth startups and impact investors. Podcast and full-talk video.
Watch / listen on STVP ↗Keough School of Global Affairs (Washington, D.C.), March 11, 2025. Chuck participated in a panel of AI developers and adopters at this Notre Dame workshop convening government, civil society, and private-sector experts on AI's impact on workers and on the policy interventions that could help workers adapt. Insights to be synthesized in a forthcoming white paper.
Read the Notre Dame writeup ↗ETL micro-episode, December 2020. Reflections on entrepreneurs' responsibility to build a more inclusive tech ecosystem.
Listen on STVP ↗