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- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
that, then that company has more capital and can do things that it couldn't otherwise do.” Doing well by doing good is an important trend in business generally and venture capital specifically, with the sphere of impact investing no...
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by Rachel Layne
- 22 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
What’s Behind the Private Equity Boom?
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological...
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
ways that are often invisible. A provocative new book by economists Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner describes what's wrong, but shines a light on ways to fix the system, too....
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by Ann Cullen
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at...
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- 13 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers
- 12 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity: Reply to Ayash and Rastad
- August 1998
- Article
Discussion of 'Venture Capital Financing, Moral Hazard, and Learning' by Dirk Bergemann and Ulrich Hege
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "Discussion of 'Venture Capital Financing, Moral Hazard, and Learning' by Dirk Bergemann and Ulrich Hege." Special Issue on The Economics of Small Business Finance Journal of Banking & Finance 22, nos. 6-8 (August 1998): 736–740.
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
professors who specialize in entrepreneurial finance. A Tradition Of Crowdfunding Before understanding what crowdfunding can do, it's helpful to understand what it is. In a sense, says Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Josh...
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- 2013
- Chapter
Discussion of "Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development" by Bruce Greenwald and Stiglitz Stiglitz
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. Discussion of "Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development" by Bruce Greenwald and Stiglitz Stiglitz. In The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology. no. 151-1, edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Justin Lin Yifu. IEA Conference Volume. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
their next venture-backed firm, compared with 23 percent for those who previously failed and 22 percent for first-timers. "The size of the effect more than anything was surprising," note HBS professors Paul A. Gompers and Josh View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 2012
- Book
The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations
By: Josh Lerner
Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark—plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a...
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Motivation and Incentives;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Organizational Structure;
Microeconomics
Lerner, Josh. The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
after misconduct. The labor market partially undoes firm-level discipline by rehiring such advisers. Firms that hire these advisers also have higher rates of prior misconduct themselves, suggesting "matching on misconduct." These firms...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- March 1999
- Article
Discussion of "Engineering Bureaucracy: The Genesis of Formal Policies, Positions, and Structures in High-Technology Firms" by James N. Baron, M. Diane Burton, and Michael T. Hannan
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. Discussion of "Engineering Bureaucracy: The Genesis of Formal Policies, Positions, and Structures in High-Technology Firms" by James N. Baron, M. Diane Burton, and Michael T. Hannan. Special Issue on Bureaucracy: Issues and Apparatus Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 15, no. 1 (March 1999): 42–46.
- 2010
- Book
The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development
By: Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman
Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source, while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic...
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Development Economics;
Economic Growth;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Open Source Distribution;
Software
Lerner, Josh, and Mark Schankerman. The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development. MIT Press, 2010.
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
difference do angel investors make for the success and growth of new ventures? William R. Kerr and Josh Lerner of HBS and Antoinette Schoar of MIT provide fresh evidence to address this crucial question in...
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- Article
Discussion of "Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act in the United States" by David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis
By: Josh Lerner
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Innovation and Invention;
Education;
Information Technology;
Patents;
Law;
Communication;
United States
Lerner, Josh. Discussion of "Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act in the United States" by David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis. Journal of Economic Literature 43, no. 2 (June 2005): 510–511.
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University...
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by Avery Forman
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
and Josh Lerner Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-099.pdf Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal...
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Carmen Nobel