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  • December 2020
  • Article

Different Founders, Different Firms: A Comparative Analysis of Academic and Non-academic Startups

By: Maria P. Roche, Annamaria Conti and Frank T. Rothaermel
What role do differences in founders' occupational backgrounds play in new venture performance? Analyzing a novel dataset of 2,998 founders creating 1,723 innovative startups in biomedicine, we find that the likelihood and hazard of achieving a liquidity event are... View Details
Keywords: Founders; Innovation; Occupational Imprinting; Academic Startups; Non-academic Startups; Founder Heterogeneity; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Performance; Demographics; Analysis
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Equity; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Deal; Ownership Stake; Value
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Equity
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  • August 2017
  • Article

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of entrepreneurial founding teams. Using a formal theory where founders may have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Entrepreneurship; Equity
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  • 01 Jun 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman
  • July–August 2021
  • Article

Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes

By: Annamaria Conti and Maria P. Roche
We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals’ decisions to bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine how worsening labor market conditions influence individuals’ opportunity costs of starting... View Details
Keywords: Necessity Entrepreneurship; Economic Conditions; Recessions; High-tech Startups; Opportunity Costs; Entrepreneurship; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance; Labor
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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

we consider determinants of equal splitting. We identify three founder characteristics-idea generation, prior entrepreneurial experience, and founder capital contributions-regarding which greater team View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2012
  • Article

Management Practices across Firms and Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing, American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Public Sector; Private Sector; Country; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

employment—and provide evidence that none of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

contributions—regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the likelihood of equal splitting. Second, we show that these same founder characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

study extends previous research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Distinct_Effects_11-023.pdf August 2013 Cambridge Handbook of Institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

amplify pressures to improve. Examining organizational responses to a change in a prominent information disclosure program, we provide some of the first empirical evidence characterizing organizations' heterogeneous responses to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

from other firms, rather than developing new projects internally. Examining the channels behind this increase in R&D in-licensing, we explore heterogeneity in treatment effects and competitor spillovers. We find that competitors move... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment decisions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-105.pdf Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Mikhail Golosov, Maxim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

dynamics of courtship. While the podcast focused primarily on heterogeneous relationships, marriage, and monogamy, I couldn’t help but think of the parallels with cofounder relationships. My brain is in the entrepreneurship space most of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

does that experience change the slant and bias of their contributions over time? Despite heterogeneity in contributors and their contributions, we find an overall trend towards less segregated conversations. Contributors tend to edit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

switching costs, multihoming is hard, which makes it complicated for firms or individual users to switch from one platform to another. The next criterion we identify is relatively homogenous products and a lack of identifiable niches. The more View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

top-management counsel, hiring the most qualified staff, and an apprenticeship process that built excellence. For example, Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey, preached that partners had to focus on serving the right senior clients on their... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting