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Jorge Guzman

Jorge Guzman

Gantcher Associate Professor of Business: Management Division

Areas of Expertise: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Leadership & Organizational Behavior, Strategy

Contact: Office: 975 Kravis; E-mail: [email protected]

Links: Personal Website; Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Jorge Guzman is an associate professor at the Management Division in Columbia Business School. Jorge received his PhD from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and was previously a postdoc at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a lecturer at MIT Sloan. His research focuses on entrepreneurship policy, regional entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial strategy. He was previously involved in the Boston startup ecosystem, and has been an advisor to numerous startups on varied topics, and to regional and national policy agencies on the design of entrepreneurship ecosystems.

Joined CBS: 2018

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Research
Teaching
Awards and Honors
Press
CaseWorks

Journal articles
Working papers
Articles
Books
Chapters

Journal Article

Tareque, Inara, Jorge Guzman , and Dan Wang

. “High-Skilled Immigration Enhances Regional Entrepreneurship.”

PNAS

(September 05, 2024).

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Journal Article

Cowgill, Bo, Jorge Guzman , and Dany Bahar

. “Refugee Entrepreneurship: The Case of Venezuelans in Colombia.”

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings

no.

113

(May 01, 2023):

352

356

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Journal Article

Conti, Annamaria and Jorge Guzman

. “What is the U.S. Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Israeli Migrations to the United States.” (March 18, 2021).

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Journal Article

Fazio, Cathy, Jorge Guzman , and Scott Stern

. “The Impact of State-Level R&D Tax Credits on the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship.”

Economic Development Quarterly

vol.

, (January 01, 2020):

188

208

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Journal Article

Guzman, Jorge, Jean Oh, and A. Sen

. “What Motivates Innovative Entrepreneurs? Evidence from a Field Experiment.”

Management Science

vol.

, (January 01, 2020):

4808

4819

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Journal Article

Guzman, Jorge and Aleksandra Olenka Kacperczyk

. “Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship.”

Research Policy

vol.

, (January 01, 2019):

1666

1680

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Journal Article

Guzman, Jorge and Aishen Li

. “Measuring Founding Strategy.”

Management Science

(January 01, 2019):

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Journal Article

Guzman, Jorge and Scott Stern

. “Where Is Silicon Valley?”

Science

vol.

347

, (January 01, 2015):

606

609

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Working Paper

Guzman, Jorge and Scott Stern

. The State of American Entrepreneurship: New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 32 US States, 1988-2014. Forthcoming.

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Working Paper

Cowgill, Bo, Jorge Guzman , and Dany Bahar

. The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons: Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs. November 01, 2022.

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Working Paper

Guzman, Jorge, Jean Oh, and Ananya Sen

. How Do (Green) Innovators Respond to Climate Change Scenarios? Evidence from a Field Experiment. July 26, 2021.

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Working Paper

Chiles, Bennett, Jorge Guzman , and S. Yu

. Strategic Disclosure and Startup Funding. January 01, 2019.

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Working Paper

Catalini, Christian, Jorge Guzman , and Scott Stern

. Hidden in Plain Sight: Venture Growth Capital With and Without Venture Capital. January 01, 2019.

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Working Paper

Guzman, Jorge

. Go West Young Firm: The Value of Entrepreneurial Migration for Startups and Their Founders. January 01, 2018.

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Newspaper/Magazine Article

Andrews, RJ, Catherine Fazio, Jorge Guzman , Yupeng Liu, and Scott Stern

. “The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and Mapping Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.”

Research Policy

. Forthcoming.

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Chapter

Guzman, Jorge and Scott Stern

. “Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance.” In

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges

, edited by

John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

, 2017.

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Courses
Case Studies

Course

B6502: Strategy Formulation

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Course

B8586: Entrepreneurial Strategy

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Course

B7586: Entrepreneurial Strategy

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Awards & Honors

In the Media
Articles

In the Media

This Week in Retail: NRF State of Retail Webinar and JPMorgan Retail Roundup

Retail Brew

In the Media

Where Have All the ‘Third Places’ Gone?

The New York Times

In the Media

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor … and Your High-Skilled!

Columbia Business School

In the Media

How Magic Johnson's Starbucks Created New Neighborhood Businesses

NPR

In the Media

Pandemic Start-Ups Are Thriving, and Helping to Fuel the Economy

The New York Times

In the Media

When Starbucks Moves in, Neighborhoods Change like This for 7 Years, According to a Massive New Study

Inc.

In the Media

How Starbucks Caffeinates Local Economies

The Economist

In the Media

Women Using Business School to Unleash Their Entrepreneurial Superpower

Forbes

In the Media

Small, Local Businesses Have a Competitive Advantage over the Amazons and Ubers of the World, According to a New Report

Entrepreneur

In the Media

Target's Latest Rollout Puts Cost-Conscious Consumers First

Inc.

In the Media

Tory Burch Foundation Unveils Finance Tool for Women Founders

Axios

In the Media

Adapt or Else: Downtown Businesses Cope with New Reality

The Associated Press

In the Media

Former 'Shark Tank' Contestant Reaches a Breaking Point as Federal Aid Runs Out

CNBC

In the Media

New Business Needs a Big Rescue, Too.

Forbes

In the Media

State Of Women And Entrepreneurship 2020: Here's What You Need To Know

Forbes

In the Media

Female Entrepreneurs Are Finally Getting More VC Bucks

Crain's New York Business

In the Media

Why Are Female Entrepreneurs Still Missing Out on Funding?

Yahoo! Finance

Article

Randy Garutti on Leading Shake Shack: Scale Smart, Stay Authentic

Article

How High-Skilled Immigrants Drive US Job Growth and Innovation

Article

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor … and Your High-Skilled!

Article

How Location is Fueling Innovation

Article

How Starbucks Cafes Can Fuel Startup Growth: The Power of Third Places

Article

The Power of Place: How Location Fuels Innovation and Entrepreneurial Success

Article

Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Article

Amnesty’s Impact on Entrepreneurship: Immigration Pardons Can Spur Economic Development

Article

Partisan Entrepreneurship: Optimism, Political Identity and the Party In Power

Article

New Research: Entrepreneurship, New Business Creation are Critical to COVID-19 Economic Recovery

CaseWorks

Case ID: 220410

Technology on Display: Can NFTs Redefine Art?

Are non-fungible tokens a passing fad or a market-redefining technology that will permanently change the way art is owned and traded?

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Case ID: 210413

Laws of Motion During a Global Pandemic: Pivoting from Perfect Fit to PPE

How did innovative women's apparel startup pivot to manufacture PPE at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Case ID: 200407

Kylie Cosmetics

Can Kylie Cosmetics move beyond its famous founder to achieve long-term success?

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Case ID: 190412

Where To? BlazingDB Contemplates Relocation

Where should technology startup BlazingDB be headquartered to have the best access to knowledge, talent, and capital?

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