What is Entrepreneurial Leadership?

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