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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded startup and View Details
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April White
- March 2001
- Case
Sime Darby Berhad (B): The Asian Crisis Begins
By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu
Supplements the (A) case.
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Acquisition;
Business Conglomerates;
Economy;
Capital Markets;
Emerging Markets;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Strategy;
Value Creation;
Financial Services Industry;
Malaysia
Khanna, Tarun, and Danielle Melito Wu. "Sime Darby Berhad (B): The Asian Crisis Begins." Harvard Business School Case 701-117, March 2001.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment
By: Ian Appel, Joan Farre-Mensa and Elena Simintzi
We analyze how frivolous patent-infringement claims made by “patent trolls” affect small firms’ ability to create jobs, raise capital, and survive. Our identification strategy exploits the staggered passage of anti-patent-troll laws at the state level. We find that the...
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Appel, Ian, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Elena Simintzi. "Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-072, February 2017.
- Profile
David A. Frankel
introduced me to more great people,” Frankel said. He ended up backing 27 startups before he and Paley founded Founder Collective, a venture capital firm based in Harvard Square and New York (Chris Dixon was...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
Starting New Ventures, and Venture Capital and Private Equity. The Class of 1975's major gift cochairs, Leo J. Corbett, Hamilton E.("Tony") James, and Kendrick R. Wilson, reported that their classmates have...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
while producing robust returns. Emily's role prior to HBS was a Commercialization Manager at RXBAR. Mike Kelly (MBA 2022, Section I), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Climate Tech Fund at Fifth Wall Fifth Wall is the largest venture...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
slowdown of wireless technology, and the increasingly bright outlook for venture capital and private equity. Global private equity funding has been on the order of $300 billion since the beginning of 2000,...
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- February 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Digital Media Group: The Shanghai Bid
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
In December 2008, Thomas G. Tsao, acting CEO of Digital Media Group (DMG), a venture-backed provider of technology and media used primarily in subways, must decide how to structure the company's bid for the advertising concession in Shanghai's 13 existing and planned...
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Advertising;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Corporate Accountability;
Business or Company Management;
Bids and Bidding;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Competitive Strategy;
Advertising Industry;
Technology Industry;
Shanghai
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Digital Media Group: The Shanghai Bid." Harvard Business School Case 810-099, February 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields using multiple definitions....
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Immigrants;
Entrepreneurs;
Entry;
Firms;
Growth;
High-tech Marketing;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Immigration;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-011, July 2016. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22385, July 2016.)
- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Parenting Magazine TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-291-015). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note.
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- January 2019
- Article
Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership
By: Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
The economics of partnerships have been of enduring interest to economists, but many issues regarding intergenerational conflicts and their impact on the continuity of these organizations remain unclear. We examine 717 private equity partnerships and show that (a) the...
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Partnerships;
Leveraged Buyout;
Partners and Partnerships;
Private Equity;
Venture Capital;
Leveraged Buyouts
Ivashina, Victoria, and Josh Lerner. "Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership." Journal of Financial Economics 131, no. 1 (January 2019): 61–87.
- October 2012 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
Innova Capital: The Transition
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
The partners at Innova Capital, a leading mid-market private equity investor in Poland, must negotiate a transition of power between the two ex-patriate founders and three talented young Polish partners. If they fail to find an accomodation, the entire firm will...
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Firm Structure;
Career Management;
Emerging Market;
Succession;
Entrepreneurship;
Private Equity;
Venture Capital;
Negotiation;
Investment;
Restructuring;
Transition
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Innova Capital: The Transition." Harvard Business School Case 813-064, October 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
- January 2002 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Publishing Group of America (A)
By: Jay O. Light, Michael J. Roberts and Taslim Pirmohamed
A small start-up in the publishing business compares three possible alternatives for its new round of equity financing.
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Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Information Publishing;
United States
Light, Jay O., Michael J. Roberts, and Taslim Pirmohamed. "Publishing Group of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 202-036, January 2002. (Revised July 2007.)
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier society and improved living...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
William H. Draper, III | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
(PDF) William H. Draper III, HBS 1954, started his career in venture capital with Draper Gaither & Anderson, the first venture capital firm west...
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- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
depends on the personal connections of a few people and can be scaled up to include many mechanisms and managers networking on behalf of numerous companies. This advantage is important when comparing networked incubators with venture...
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Harvard Business School
innovative startups to succeed. "Getting the venture capital field off the ground... was as risky as the new industries it would invest in..." author and analyst Kenneth Fisher argues. "[Doriot] staked both...
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- April 2022
- Article
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates' Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits
By: Dan Wang, Emily Cox Pahnke and Rory M. McDonald
Past research has produced contradictory insights into how prior collaboration between organizations—their relational embeddedness—impacts collective collaborative performance. We theorize that the effect of relational embeddedness on collaborative success is...
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Inter-organizational Networks;
Collaboration;
Entrepreneurship;
Networks;
Organizations;
Performance;
Venture Capital
Wang, Dan, Emily Cox Pahnke, and Rory M. McDonald. "The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates' Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits." Academy of Management Journal 65, no. 2 (April 2022): 371–402.
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
isn’t that different from a for-profit company, he adds, except “we don’t have rational capital markets in the nonprofit world. In the private sector, if you do well, people run to you with capital, hoping to get a piece of your increased...
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- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable...
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