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    Georges F. Doriot

    Doriot founded the first and one of the most successful publicly traded venture capital corporations in the United States. While American R&D funded numerous business entities, Doriot’s big success came... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 04 Mar 2025
    • Blog Post

    WesTrek 2025: Exploring the Future of Tech in Silicon Valley

    into venture capital, emerging tech, and career-shaping insights. This year’s trek saw a significant expansion, with visits to six top venture capital firms — a 20% increase... View Details
    Keywords: Technology
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub

    By: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert and Maria P. Roche
    We study the engagement of nascent firms with open source communities and its implications for innovation and attracting funding. To do so, we link data on 160,065 U.S. startups from Crunchbase to their activities on the open source software development platform... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Knowledge; Open Source Communities; GitHub; Machine Learning; Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Information Technology; Strategy
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    • 02 Sep 2021
    • News

    Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs

    In this video, Startup Factory Ethiopia cofounder Thomas Ferede (MBA 2009) explains the mission of his organization—and how the HBS network has helped further its goals. “So Startup Factory Ethiopia is a venture builder. We wanted to... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Patent Trolls and Small-Business Employment

    Keywords: by Ian Appel, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Elena Simintzi
    • March 2001 (Revised March 2021)
    • Teaching Note

    Heidi Roizen (TN)

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Linda-Eling Lee
    Teaching Note for (9-800-228). View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks
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    • Fall 2007
    • Article

    A Comprehensive Look at the Private Equity Industry in Mexico (1990–2006)

    By: Roberto Charvel
    This article is one of the few historical numerical reviews of a private equity industry in an emerging market. View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Market; Latin America; Mexico; Economic Sectors; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; North and Central America
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    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together

    two hundred young HBS alumni face-to-face with experienced "angels" (backers willing to forgo much of the business involvement and control that traditional venture capitalists typically demand). The sold-out event, which drew participants... View Details
    • 2001
    • Report

    The Diana Project: Women Business Owners and Equity Capital: The Myths Dispelled

    By: Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia Green and Myra M. Hart
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Gender; Capital
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      Brandon Farwell

      in enterprise technologies; notably applied machine intelligence (computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning), VR/AR, robotics/autonomy, and space. He has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 Venture View Details
      Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)
      • May 2008 (Revised June 2009)
      • Case

      Finansbank 2006

      By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
      How do financial policy requirements and benefits of ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Capital Budgeting; Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Turkey; Greece
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        Jesse H. Jones

        Under Jones’ presidency, RFC became the nation’s largest bank and biggest single investor. It not only provided loans to established banks, but also encouraged new ventures and sought to enlarge bank capital... View Details
        Keywords: Finance
        • September 2023
        • Case

        Healthy.io: The Negotiation for the Medical Selfie

        By: Amit Goldenberg and Kumba Sennaar
        Healthy.io, an Israeli digital health company, prepares to enter the U.S. market with its chronic kidney disease test. A product safety approval is delayed, putting the company’s cash runway at risk. How should the CEO negotiate his offer to insurance companies ahead... View Details
        Keywords: Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Operations; Business Startups; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; Israel; United Kingdom; United States
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        Arthur Rock | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

        International Robert Higgins Highland Capital Richard Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Dean LeBaron Batterymarch Erling Lorentzen Aracruz Dan Lufkin Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Thomas Murphy Capital... View Details
        • Forthcoming
        • Article

        Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus When Financing Innovation

        By: Andrey Malenko, Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Savitar Sundaresan
        We document that investment committees of major VCs use a voting rule where one partner `championing' an early-stage investment is sufficient to invest. Their stated reason for this rule is to `catch outliers'. The same VCs use a more conventional `majority' rule for... View Details
        Keywords: Optimal Voting Rules; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Voting
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        • November 2000
        • Case

        UPromise

        By: Michael J. Roberts and William A. Sahlman
        Describes the development of UPromise, a company that has developed a loyalty program through which corporate partners can contribute to funds that finance the education of consumers' children. Presents the accomplishments prior to the company's second round of... View Details
        Keywords: Higher Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Markets; Programs
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        • 01 May 2013
        • News

        William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952

        Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Bill Bowes has been a force in the US venture capital industry for more than 50 years. As a founder of the Silicon Valley–based U.S. View Details
        • Web

        Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

        already public acquirer - remains a critical step in corporate transformation by private equity investors and innovation by venture capitalists. Because public capital markets play such a key role in the... View Details
        • Winter 2009
        • Article

        Is Private Equity Out of Control in Latin America?: The Impact of Structures on Private Equity Transactions in Latin America 1988-2007

        By: Roberto Charvel
        This article explores the private equity industries in 25 Latin American countries from 1988 to 2007. View Details
        Keywords: Latin America; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Business Cycles; Development Economics; Economic Systems; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Assets; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Latin America; North and Central America
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        • Profile

        Lauren Burrows

        Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I sought my MBA at HBS at a key moment of transition in my career, both in terms of industry focus and position. I was committed to pursuing a career in the energy industry, but wasn’t entirely sure what form I wanted... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity