The study: Ross Levine of the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and Yona Rubinstein of the London School of Economics’s Department of Management studied the traits associated with successful entrepreneurs, using longitudinal data that included individuals’ responses as teenagers. They found that ”aggressive/illicit/risk-taking tendencies,” when combined with intelligence and other factors, helped predict success in entrepreneurship.
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