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Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Finance I This course examines the role of View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- News
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
- 01 Jun 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
Running a Consumer Fintech Startup within Goldman Sachs
- 2022
- Chapter
Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups
By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for...
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Keywords:
High-tech;
H1-B;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital
Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups." In Innovation and Public Policy, edited by Austan D. Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- April 2000 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Infosys: Financing an Indian Software Start-Up
Describes the financing and growth of Infosys, an Indian software start-up. Infosys defies a number of stereotypes about barriers to entrepreneurship in India. The company was founded by a small group of entrepreneurs with little equity and without backing from a large...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Applications and Software;
Financing and Loans;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "Infosys: Financing an Indian Software Start-Up." Harvard Business School Case 800-103, April 2000. (Revised April 2004.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Financing and Loans;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Market Entry and Exit;
Banking Industry;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-010, July 2009. (Invited submission to Journal of European Economic Association, Revised October 2009.)
- April 2000
- Case
Financing of Project Achieve, The (A)
By: Mihir A. Desai
An entrepreneur is forced to analyze the tradeoffs between different equity providers through a detailed analysis of venture financing terms and cash flow forecasts. The founder of a Web-based IMS for schools must negotiate a term sheet, determine funding needs, value...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Venture Capital;
Cash Flow;
Equity;
Negotiation Deal;
Valuation
Desai, Mihir A. "Financing of Project Achieve, The (A)." Harvard Business School Case 200-042, April 2000.
- Web
Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1624 Assistant Professor Raymond Kluender Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits27 SessionsQualifies for Management Science Track Credit Career Focus Entrepreneurial View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1625 Professor Shai Bernstein Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits14 SessionsExamQualifies for Management Science Track Credit Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance...
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- April – May 2010
- Article
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Financing and Loans;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Market Entry and Exit;
Banking Industry;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size." Journal of the European Economic Association 8, nos. 2-3 (April–May 2010): 582–593.
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups With more than a 40 percent increase in Alumni New Venture Contest entries this year, our 11 finalists overcame stiff competition to win their local regions. On April 23, they travel to campus to...
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- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
More entrepreneurs are receiving initial funding from VCs thanks to technologies such as the cloud. Source: PeopleImages As cloud technologies allow startups to build companies faster and cheaper than ever before, venture capitalists are...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
Do top venture capital firms add value to startups simply by attaching their names? If attracting talent is any measure, they sure do. New research finds that job seekers are two-thirds more likely to apply to a View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- February 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
eSurg (B): Second Round Financing
By: Jay O. Light and Anthony Massaro
An embryonic online medical supplies firm must negotiate a second-round funding.
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Negotiation;
Venture Capital;
Financing and Loans;
Internet;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Light, Jay O., and Anthony Massaro. "eSurg (B): Second Round Financing." Harvard Business School Case 201-051, February 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
- 06 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups
crowd. As we settle into our experiments and MVP (minimal viable product) building this summer, we're excited to see our ambitious hopes for the future come to life. My EC (second) year at HBS will be spent focusing largely on growth, scale, and View Details
- October 2015
- Teaching Note
Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. Yet it had just reported lower...
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Keywords:
Convertible Debt;
Uncertainty;
Competition;
Startup;
China;
Supply & Demand;
Growth;
Rare Earth Minerals;
Discounted Cash Flows;
Mining;
Payoff Diagrams;
Option Pricing;
Capital Budgeting;
Capital Structure;
Cash Flow;
Financial Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Vertical Integration;
Valuation;
Metals and Minerals;
Mining Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Canada;
California
- 2008
- Working Paper
Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship
By: Ramana Nanda
This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous changes in the cost of...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Cost;
Financing and Loans;
Personal Finance;
Human Capital;
Wealth;
Denmark
Nanda, Ramana. "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-047, January 2008.
- 28 Jun 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Scaling a Fintech Startup for the Greater Good
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12...
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Maureen Harmon