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- 2022
- Working Paper
Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Kunal Mehta, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu
We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the...
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Keywords:
Startup Labor Market;
Investors;
Randomized Field Experiment;
Certification Effect;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Human Capital;
Job Search;
Reputation
Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Kunal Mehta, Richard Townsend, and Ting Xu. "Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-060, February 2022.
- Article
Believe in Vaccine Bets Like Bill Gates's
Commitment of public or private funds upfront speeds development, production, and distribution.
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Keywords:
Coronavirus;
Vaccine;
Financing;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Product Development;
Production;
Distribution
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Believe in Vaccine Bets Like Bill Gates's." Bloomberg Opinion (April 28, 2020).
- February 2011 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Gemini Investors
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Gemini Investors was a private equity firm focused on small and lower middle market businesses. Gemini's target investment size was between $4 million and $6 million and a typical portfolio company had revenue of between $8 million and $30 million. In early 2015,...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Investment;
Investment Funds;
Markets;
Size;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Gemini Investors." Harvard Business School Case 211-066, February 2011. (Revised August 2021.)
- Forthcoming
- Article
Segmented Arbitrage
We use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the frictions and constraints facing intermediaries. The average pairwise correlation between the 32 arbitrage spreads that we study is 22%. These low correlations are...
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Keywords:
Financial Intermediation;
Arbitrage;
Intermediary-based Asset Pricing;
Finance;
Segmentation
Siriwardane, Emil, Adi Sunderam, and Jonathan Wallen. "Segmented Arbitrage." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
provide on-going support for two full scholarships annually. This year, the club sought and received support from HBS to help fund two of the four scholarships. “We usually send two, but they were all so...
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Margie Kelley
- September 2008 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Ithmar Capital
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries, are about to raise their third fund, targeting $1 billion. The firm's current strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Financial Management;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Financial Services Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Ithmar Capital." Harvard Business School Case 809-032, September 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
- November 1999
- Case
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)
By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a...
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Keywords:
Fluctuation;
Capital;
Financial Liquidity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Management;
Risk Management;
Markets;
Motivation and Incentives;
Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F. "Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)." Harvard Business School Case 200-009, November 1999.
- Profile
Katie Laidlaw
hope to one day be the leader of a large, nonprofit funding agency that addresses social inequity and supports social enterprise. Upon graduation, my career vision still holds true. At HBS, I gained tactical...
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Consulting
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
laboratories for student and faculty work in areas such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric energy; sustainable production of rice, sugarcane, hay, mangoes, and beef; waste management; and carbon neutrality. An additional commercial growing...
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Deborah Blagg
- May 1996 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Northeast Ventures: January 1996
By: Josh Lerner and Eric K. Jackson
Northeast Ventures, a venture capital fund focusing on the development of northeastern Minnesota, seeks to combine social goals with financial returns. This marriage poses several challenges.
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Lerner, Josh, and Eric K. Jackson. "Northeast Ventures: January 1996." Harvard Business School Case 296-093, May 1996. (Revised November 1997.)
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual...
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by Kim Girard
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
buyout. Others maintain that PE fund managers are better at managing firms and making them more efficient than many corporate executives. Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking at...
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- 15 May 2009
- News
Diminished Returns
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
skills. “I knew a key element that was missing for me was experience managing people,” says Murray, who hopes to someday run his own medical-device or health-care company. Murray is the recipient of the MBA Class View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
generosity of the School’s alumni and friends. “We have been fortunate that our donors appreciate our efforts to develop the next generation of leaders,” says Datar. Endowment gifts and annual contributions...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA...
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- 19 Aug 2012
- News
A realistic discount rate for pensions
- October 2013
- Article
Corporate Venturing
By: Josh Lerner
For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Corporate Strategy;
Research and Development;
Business Startups;
Innovation and Invention
Lerner, Josh. "Corporate Venturing." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 86–94.
- July 2018
- Teaching Note
The Perfect Storm: What Happens When the Market Moves Four Standard Deviations?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Adam Carter was the portfolio manager for Tate Modern Finance III, L.P. (“Tate” or the “Fund”), the third in a series of U.S. commercial real estate debt funds sponsored by the London-based Tate Partners. The Fund was capitalized with $700 million of equity...
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Keywords:
CMBS;
CLO;
Repo Financing;
Real Estate;
Financial Strategy;
Investment Funds;
Financing and Loans