What is entrepreneurial leadership? And how can entrepreneurial leaders solve the problems that have perplexed so many others?

New research from Babson College faculty proposes that entrepreneurial leadership is a paradigm-shifting model that could have a long-term impacts for businesses and organizations of all kinds.

To outline how entrepreneurial leadership actually works, we’ve got two of Babson’s foremost researchers here today:

• Professor Scott Taylor, Professor of organizational behavior and the Arthur M. Blank endowed chair for values-based leadership
• Professor Danna Greenberg the Walter H. Carpenter professor of organizational behavior, also serving as the associate dean of the Faculty Division and chair of the management division

They have co-authored with four colleagues a recently published paper that offers the first academic model for how entrepreneurial leaders can move teams from problems to possibilities.

Sources:

New research paper:

Taylor, S. N., Corbett, A., Greenberg, D., Murphy, W., Rollag, K., & Shay, J. (2025). A conceptual model of entrepreneurial leadership: how entrepreneurial leaders enable entrepreneurial opportunity. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-025-01074-9

Book:

Greenberg, D., McKone-Sweet, K., & Wilson, H. J. (2011). The new Entrepreneurial Leader: developing leaders who shape social and economic opportunity. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24848726M/The_new_entrepreneurial_leader