Faculty

Faculty & Research

Leleux, Benoît Ph.D.

(Switzerland)
IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
S. Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
Director of the MBA Program
Director of Research and Development

Ph.D. in Management, INSEAD (F)
MBA, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (USA)
M.Sc in Agricultural Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain (B)
M.Ed in Natural Sciences, Catholic University of Louvain (B)

Courses: 
  • Venture Capital / Entrepreneurial Finance

Research Interests:

Venture financing; Combining expertise in entrepreneurship; Venture capital; Private equity; Growth management. His recent research papers look at equity-for-service arrangements, how corporate investors learn in their venturing efforts, and the private equity investment profiles of family offices.

Honors and Awards

CV: 
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Publication: 

Most Recent

  • Financing the High Growth Entrepreneurial Venture: A Public Policy Perspective, with James Henderson and Augusto Ruperez Micola. Ch. 12 in Tim Habbershon and Mark Rice (Eds.) Praeger Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Vol. III, forthcoming 2006.
  • Service-for-Equity Arrangements: Untangling Motives and Conflicts, with James Henderson and Ian White. Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 21, 2006, pages 886-909.
  • The Performance of Venture Capital Investments, in Hans Landstrom (Ed.) Handbook of Research on Venture Capital, forthcoming 2006.
  • Public Versus Private Venture Capital: Seeding or Crowding Out?, in Albert Link (Ed.) Entrepreneurship and Technology Policy, Volume 3 of David Audretsch (Ed.) International Library of Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, UK, 2006.
  • Corporate venture capital: leveraging core competences, hedging uncertainty, or creating an ecosystem?, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, (with Henderson, James E.).
  • Entrepreneurship at the core: the MBA and EMBA startup projects experiences, Harlow: Financial Times / Prentice-Hall, p. 292-311, 2005 (with Pulcrano, Jim).
  • Learning from experience in corporate venture capital programs: an empirical analysis of the global network operator industries, Greenwich: Information Age Publishing, p.173-198, 2005 (with Henderson, James E.)