Tuesday, January 6, 2009

MIT professor wins Kauffman entrepreneurship award

By Mass High Tech staff

MIT professor Antoinette Schoar has been awarded the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship as part of the Kauffman Foundation’s announcement of its 2009 Young Scholars Program recipients. The awards were presented at the Allied Social Science Associations’ annual meeting on Saturday.

The Young Scholars Program recognizes talented young individuals and provides funding for their work in entrepreneurship. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship itself was established in 2005, awarding a $50,000 cash prize every two years to individuals under 40 years old.

Schoar is the Michael M. Koerner Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Her work includes research into entrepreneurship, corporate finance and organizational economics. She has amassed awards, including the Fellowship of the George Stigler Center, 1997-1999, and the ERP Doctoral Scholarship of the German Ministry of Trade, 1995-1997.

Schoar graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in economics.

The Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was founded by the late Ewing Marion Kauffman, a philanthropist and entrepreneur, and holds about $2 billion in assets.