# Professor Deepak Hegde's joint research on entrepreneurship is featured

1 Faculty News April 17, 2018 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](https://work.qz.com/1253632/why-do-people-become-entrepreneurs/https://work.qz.com/1253632/why-do-people-become-entrepreneurs/) -- "The paper’s authors, [Deepak Hegde](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/deepak-hegde), an associate professor of management and organizations at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and Justin Tumlinson, a senior lecturer at Loughborough University London, found that when 'potential employers perceive \[an employee’s\] productive capacity as lower than he does' it gives the person a reason to start their own venture."

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