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- May 2002
- Article
150 Years of Patent Protection
By: Josh Lerner
Keywords:
Patents
Lerner, Josh. "150 Years of Patent Protection." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 92, no. 2 (May 2002): 221–225. (American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 92 (May 2002) 221-225. Reprinted in John Cantwell, editor, The Economics of Patents. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2005. Reprinted in Robert P. Merges, editor, Economics of Intellectual Property Law. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2007. Reprinted in Carlos M. Correa, editor, Intellectual Property and Economic Development. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2018. Earlier versions distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper.)
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which companies can ensure their own long-term sustainability by contributing...
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Keywords:
Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 2021
- Article
ThreeDWorld: A Platform for Interactive Multi-Modal Physical Simulation
By: Chuang Gan, Jeremy Schwartz, Seth Alter, Damian Mrowca, Martin Schrimpf, James Traer, Julian De Freitas, Jonas Kubilius, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Nick Haber, Megumi Sano, Kuno Kim, Elias Wang, Michael Lingelbach, Aidan Curtis, Kevin Feigelis, Daniel M. Bear, Dan Gutfreund, David Cox, Antonio Torralba, James J. DiCarlo, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Josh H. McDermott and Daniel L.K. Yamins
We introduce ThreeDWorld (TDW), a platform for interactive multi-modal physical simulation. TDW enables simulation of high-fidelity sensory data and physical interactions between mobile agents and objects in rich 3D environments. Unique properties include: real-time...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Platform;
Interactive Physical Simulation;
Virtual Environment;
Multi-modal;
AI and Machine Learning
Gan, Chuang, Jeremy Schwartz, Seth Alter, Damian Mrowca, Martin Schrimpf, James Traer, Julian De Freitas, Jonas Kubilius, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Nick Haber, Megumi Sano, Kuno Kim, Elias Wang, Michael Lingelbach, Aidan Curtis, Kevin Feigelis, Daniel M. Bear, Dan Gutfreund, David Cox, Antonio Torralba, James J. DiCarlo, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Josh H. McDermott, and Daniel L.K. Yamins. "ThreeDWorld: A Platform for Interactive Multi-Modal Physical Simulation." Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Datasets and Benchmarks Track 35th (2021).
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in IP such as the rise of patent pools. Key concepts include: In many cases, firms are ignoring the increased role of intellectual property in today's economy...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 1996 (Revised March 2011)
- Background Note
Note on Valuation in Private Equity Settings, A
By: Josh Lerner and John Willinge
This note discusses several ways in which venture-backed firms can be valued, including comparables, net present value, decision-tree analysis, and the "venture capital method."
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Lerner, Josh, and John Willinge. "Note on Valuation in Private Equity Settings, A." Harvard Business School Background Note 297-050, October 1996. (Revised March 2011.)
- 1999
- Other Unpublished Work
Capital Formation and Investment in Venture Markets: Implications for the Advanced Technology Program
By: Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
- February 2013
- Article
Institutions and Venture Capital
By: Josh Lerner and Joacim Tag
We survey the literature on venture capital and institutions and present a case study comparing the development of the venture capital market in the United States and Sweden. Our literature survey underscores that the legal environment, financial market development,...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Organizations;
Taxation;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Markets;
United States;
Sweden
Lerner, Josh, and Joacim Tag. "Institutions and Venture Capital." Industrial and Corporate Change 22, no. 1 (February 2013): 153–182.
- October 2012 (Revised July 2014)
- Background Note
The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital
By: Josh Lerner and Tom Nicholas
Whether the government or markets, or a mixture of both, can provide efficient and effective incentives for encouraging entrepreneurial activity and new venture financing is an age-old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial and in most cases they tend to...
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Lerner, Josh, and Tom Nicholas. "The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 813-096, October 2012. (Revised July 2014.)
- September 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Martin Smith: July 2012
By: Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon
Martin Smith, a recently hired general partner at a Brazil-based venture capital firm, must decide among three deal opportunities. Each has different strengths (management, market, and technology) but each has its own weaknesses as well. He must also consider each deal...
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- November 2011
- Teaching Note
Angels in British Columbia (TN)
By: Josh Lerner and Thomas Hellmann
Keywords:
British Columbia
- March 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Microsoft's IP Ventures
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Microsoft's IP Ventures program, through which Microsoft spun out promising but unused technologies into new companies, is a new approach to corporate venture capital. The program provides "IP for equity" and has proven very successful in achieving its main...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Intellectual Property;
Rights;
Software;
Washington (state, US)
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Microsoft's IP Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 810-096, March 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- September 2006
- Article
A Model of Forum Shopping, with Special Reference to Standard Setting Organizations
By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "A Model of Forum Shopping, with Special Reference to Standard Setting Organizations." American Economic Review 96, no. 4 (September 2006): 1091–1113. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10664.)
- Article
The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond
By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond." Journal of Economic Perspectives 19, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 99–120. (Earlier version distributed as NBER Working Paper Series No. w10956.)
- April 2004
- Article
The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence from Private Equity
By: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
Lerner, Josh, and Antoinette Schoar. "The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence from Private Equity." Journal of Financial Economics 72, no. 1 (April 2004): 3–40.
- June 2002
- Article
Some Simple Economics of Open Source
By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Keywords:
Economics
Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "Some Simple Economics of Open Source." Journal of Industrial Economics 50, no. 2 (June 2002): 197–234. (Earlier versions distributed as HBS Working Paper No. 00-068 and NBER Working Paper No. 7600.)
- May 2021 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
CPE and SUS Environmental: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em
By: Josh Lerner and Franko Jira
In July 2016, Di Yang and Grace Guo of the leading Chinese private equity group CPE faced a dilemma—a happy dilemma, but a challenge nonetheless. CPE’s investment in the waste-to-energy firm SUS Environment had proved to be exceedingly successful. This success had...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Private Equity;
Financial Liquidity;
Investment Return;
Growth and Development
Lerner, Josh, and Franko Jira. "CPE and SUS Environmental: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em (A)." Harvard Business School Case 821-085, May 2021. (Revised September 2021.)
- September 1998 (Revised May 2011)
- Background Note
Note on Private Equity Information Sources
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Provides an overview of key information sources about venture capital and private equity.
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Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Note on Private Equity Information Sources." Harvard Business School Background Note 299-018, September 1998. (Revised May 2011.)