Famed authority on entrepreneurial innovation, job creation, and economic growth, Carl Schramm, served as the first guest speaker or “stagesetter” for ILE Class 10-02 Feb 9 at 8:30 a.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium. Schramm is president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing the development of high-growth firms and understanding the role they play in economic growth. The Kauffman Foundation is the leading private funder of economic research related to growth and innovation in the United States.
Schramm is a prolific writer whose commentary often runs in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. He frequently appears on CNBC and Fox Business News. His two books, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (with Robert Litan and William Baumol, now published in seven languages) and The Entrepreneurial Imperative, are classics in their field for their insights into economic growth. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Batten Fellow in the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He earned degrees in economics and law and has two honorary doctorates. In 2004, the University of Rochester gave Schramm its George Eastman medal for innovation in management.
