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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) never intended to make a career of venture capital. But he turned out to be pretty good at picking winners and helped propel Accel Partners into the ranks of the top VC firms. more Case-Method Godfather Chris...
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- 21 Oct 2021
- News
DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
Photo courtesy Drive By DraftKings A recent article in the Boston Globe reported that the venture capital firm Drive by DraftKings, led by Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), had raised its first venture fund. Called Drive by DraftKings, McPherron tells the newspaper that...
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- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
Economic Research, Gompers teamed with Will Gornall of the University of British Columbia, Steven N. Kaplan of the University of Chicago, and Stanford University’s Ilya A. Strebulaev to survey more than 1,000 venture capitalists at 900 firms from late June to mid-July....
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- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
much-needed cash but also expertise and advice. In a perfect world, everyone benefits. The VC firm takes an equity stake and makes money when the company succeeds, rewarding limited partners who have invested in the View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?
By: Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists'...
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Keywords:
Investing;
Persistence;
Performance Persistence;
Theory Of The Firm;
Venture Capital;
Organizations;
Human Capital;
Performance Evaluation
Ewens, Michael, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-097, April 2012. (Revised January 2013, June 2013. Revise and Resubmit Journal of Finance. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19120, June 2013)
- 27 Jul 2010
- News
Four Things Great VCs Do
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I had never met in person? Having...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 09 Nov 2008
- News
What Harvard says about Israeli VC
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
The media and entertainment business can be a bit of a roller-coaster ride — particularly in today’s climate of tight margins and consolidation. But that state of flux creates opportunity, agreed panelists at the Women’s Student Association’s 2004 Dyn-amic Women in...
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- Article
Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?
By: Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists'...
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Ewens, Michael, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?" Journal of Finance 70, no. 3 (June 2015): 1081–1113.
- 15 Jun 2016
- News
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
- 21 Apr 2022
- News
How VCs Can Overcome the “Winner’s Curse”
- October 1999 (Revised March 2000)
- Background Note
Venture Capital Negotiations: VC versus Entrepreneur
By: Robert J. Robinson and Noam T. Wasserman
Introduces students to the challenging negotiations between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Explores interests, sources of negotiating power, barriers to reaching agreement, and common contractual terms. Describes how the parties try to reduce information...
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Robinson, Robert J., and Noam T. Wasserman. "Venture Capital Negotiations: VC versus Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Background Note 800-170, October 1999. (Revised March 2000.) (2000.)
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
VC Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Today's World
- September 2015
- Article
(UN)Tangled: Exploring the Coevolution of VC Firm Reputation and Status
By: Timothy G. Pollock, Peggy M. Lee, Kyuho Jin and Kisha Lashley
We explore the relationship between status and reputation, examining how its dynamics change over time as these two intangible assets coevolve and how reputation and status are influenced by
participation in highly visible events. Using a sample of more than 400...
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Keywords:
Underpricing;
Intangible Assets;
New Firms;
Status and Position;
Reputation;
Venture Capital;
Initial Public Offering
Pollock, Timothy G., Peggy M. Lee, Kyuho Jin, and Kisha Lashley. "(UN)Tangled: Exploring the Coevolution of VC Firm Reputation and Status." Administrative Science Quarterly 60, no. 3 (September 2015): 482–517.
- January 2013
- Teaching Note
Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes (Brief Case)
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Sunru Yong
- 16 Jul 2020
- Video
VC Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Today's World
- 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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- 12 Sep 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Startups Are Raking in VC Funds
New data shows that HBS alumni are leading the b-school pack in raising venture capital to fund their startups, according to an article on the website Business Because. According to data compiled by PitchBook, 1,069 HBS MBAs have founded 961 companies and raised $22.4...
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Finance
- 27 May 2010
- News