Do successful entrepreneurs have luck on their side? A new paper studies the role of sheer luck compared with talent, experience, education, and hard work in entrepreneurial performance…Claudio Loderer ’80S (MS), ’83S (PhD), the academic director of Simon’s
Rochester-Bern Executive MBA program in Switzerland, along with co-authors Diego Liechti and Urs Peyer, studied the role of luck among entrepreneurs in Switzerland, considered by various sources to be the most innovative, entrepreneurial, and competitive country in the world.