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- February 2015
- Case
Founder Field Day
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ramana Nanda and Nathaniel Burbank
Branded as the "Millennial firm for Millennials," Mike Rothenberg founded Rothenberg Ventures (RV) in 2012 while earning his MBA at the Harvard Business School (HBS). Over the following 24 months, Rothenberg raised $20 million and built a venture capital firm that made...
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Finance;
Startups;
Seed-investing;
Micro-VC;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
San Francisco;
New York (city, NY)
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, Ramana Nanda, and Nathaniel Burbank. "Founder Field Day." Harvard Business School Case 815-101, February 2015.
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
sudden rise of new entrants, especially Germany. The study shows that natural resource endowment is a poor explanatory variable for this geographical skewing. Public policy was a more important factor, although its impact was nuanced. The most important policy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
University of California law professor Jodi Short, and HBS doctoral student Andrea Hugill examined factors such as whether it was more effective to send the same auditors back to a company or send new auditors with each audit. The answer:...
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by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an early-stage venture-backed company headquartered in Los Gatos, California with a promising vision to reverse global warming...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
207-075 In May 2006, a resident of Key West, Florida had to decide whether to renew his policy to insure against hurricane damage. The policy would cost $13,000 for one year, $5,000 more than what he paid in 2005. At the same time, a wealthy View Details
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Martha Lagace
- January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?
By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Innovation And Invention;
Investment;
Ownership;
Science;
Science Bassed Business;
Markets;
Relationships;
Capital;
Private Equity;
Technological Innovation;
Investment Return;
Going Public;
Ownership Stake;
Science-Based Business;
Market Timing;
Marketplace Matching;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
California;
San Francisco;
New York (city, NY)
Rogers, Steven, and Kenneth J. Cooper. "Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?" Harvard Business School Case 317-079, January 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- January 2014 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Yahoo: Both Sides of the Stamped Deal
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Lisa C. Mazzanti
In 2012, Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo!, a tech giant with a tumultuous past. When Mayer tries to reinvigorate the company, she hires Jacqueline Reses, who has a private equity background, to head both human resources and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). As part...
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Keywords:
Mobile App;
Acquisition-hire;
Exit Strategy;
Start-up;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Human Resources;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Product Development;
Technology Industry;
Sunnyvale;
New York (city, NY)
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Lisa C. Mazzanti. "Yahoo: Both Sides of the Stamped Deal." Harvard Business School Case 814-051, January 2014. (Revised May 2015.)
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Bank: Egypt Expansion No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-067 Summit Public Schools (A) Summit Public Schools was a very successful charter management organization with schools in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- March 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Jeffrey Deitch: Art Entrepreneur
By: Henry McGee, Rohit Deshpandé and Sarah Gulick
Jeffrey Deitch is an influential gallery owner and art entrepreneur. An HBS alumnus generally credited with developing the field of bank art advisory and financing services, Deitch has had a storied career in both the commercial and non-profit art world. Wrestling with...
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Keywords:
Cultural Entrepreneurship;
Arts;
Personal Development and Career;
Fine Arts Industry;
New York (city, NY);
Los Angeles
McGee, Henry, Rohit Deshpandé, and Sarah Gulick. "Jeffrey Deitch: Art Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 320-042, March 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 409036 and 411085.
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- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The company plans to market the captured CO2 to produce low carbon transportation fuels in markets such as California where regulation, derived from a state law designed to manage climate change,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
explore CEO decision making. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2326452 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
on California and Silicon Valley, we exploit Michigan's inadvertent reversal of its non-compete enforcement legislation as a natural experiment to investigate the impact of non-competes on mobility. Using the U.S. patent database and a...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
book of simulations and avatars to explore CEO decision making. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45582 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2001
- Teaching Note
IBM's Reinventing Education (A) TN
Teaching Note for (9-399-008).
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Keywords:
Information Technology Industry;
Education Industry;
San Jose;
Philadelphia;
Florida;
Ohio
- January 2010
- Article
Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Capital Expansion
By: Henry Chen, Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner and Josh Lerner
We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that venture capital firms locate in regions with high success rates of venture...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Expansion;
Success;
Capital;
Geographic Location;
Business Units;
Corporate Accountability;
Business Offices;
Goals and Objectives;
Mission and Purpose;
Investment Funds;
Corporate Governance;
Boston;
New York (state, US);
San Francisco
Chen, Henry, Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner, and Josh Lerner. "Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Capital Expansion." Journal of Urban Economics 67, no. 1 (January 2010): 90–110.
- May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Urban Us
By: Mitchell Weiss and Phoebe Peronto
Shaun Abrahamson and Stonly Baptiste aimed to invest in what they called "urbantech superheroes." At Urban Us, the seed-stage urban technology-focused venture capital firm the two started in 2012, they looked for startups innovating around the future of cities. By...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Govtech;
Urbantech;
Seed Investing;
Urban Us;
Shaun Abrahamson;
Stonly Baptiste;
Remix;
One Concern;
Starcity;
SeamlessDocs;
Venture Capital;
Public Sector;
City;
Urban Development;
Entrepreneurship;
Miami;
San Francisco;
New York (city, NY)
Weiss, Mitchell, and Phoebe Peronto. "Urban Us." Harvard Business School Case 818-115, May 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=kupor%20tormala%20norton%20rucker.pdf Working Papers An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay By: Berry Jaeker, Jillian, and Anita Tucker Abstract—We use two years of inpatient...
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Anna Secino
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
of our districts are achieving high performance in parts of their systems, and making progress on some key dimensions of student achievement. For instance, San Francisco was the top performing urban district in California last year and...
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- January 2024
- Case
Mariam Braimah: Designing a Career in Tech
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley Bowles and Michael Norris
In 2022, Mariam Braimah, a digital designer working at Netflix, is considering the next move in her career. She has spent several years at Netflix, and in her spare time, using her savings, has founded a design-focused fellowship program and a consumer insights company...
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