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  • April 2011 (Revised April 2012)
  • Case

Angels in British Columbia

By: Josh Lerner, Thomas Hellmann and Ilkin Ilyaszade
The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards angel and venture capital investing in British Columbia, Canada. It focuses in particular on the Equity Capital Program (BCECP henceforth), which provides... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Policy; Taxation; Performance Improvement; Programs; British Columbia
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  • 12 Jun 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Public Action for Public Goods

Keywords: by Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer & Rohini Somanathan
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

By: Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner and David S. Scharfstein
This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are more likely to succeed than first time entrepreneurs and those who have previously... View Details
Keywords: Return On Investment; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Success; Experience and Expertise
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    Sophus A. Reinert

    Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

    Keywords: banking; defense; education industry; fashion; food; manufacturing; wine
    • October 2011 (Revised December 2013)
    • Case

    Lehman Brothers and Repo 105

    By: Anette Mikes, Gwen Yu and Dominique Hamel
    The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was the largest bankruptcy in US history. The case examines the economics of the off-balance sheet transactions Lehman undertook prior to the collapse, and highlights the corporate governance challenges in situations where firms... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Policy; Accounting Audits; Corporate Governance; Financial Instruments; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry
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    • December 2018 (Revised March 2019)
    • Case

    Camber Creek & Measurabl Inc.

    By: Marco Di Maggio and Lauren G. Pickle
    In late 2017, Camber Creek, a real estate technology focused venture capital firm, had to evaluate a potential investment in Measurabl Inc. which provides real estate companies of all sized with a full SaaS solution for sustainability data. View Details
    Keywords: Real Estate; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Applications and Software; Environmental Sustainability
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    • March 2020
    • Case

    Hotstar

    By: Krishna G. Palepu and Kairavi Dey
    Hotstar was an online video streaming platform owned by Star India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Corporation. Since its launch in 2015, the platform had grown to offer over 100,000 hours of TV content, movies in nine Indian languages... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Television Entertainment; Disruption; Business Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; India; Mumbai
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    • December 1985 (Revised October 1986)
    • Case

    J.C. Penney (A)

    An assistant treasurer at J.C. Penney is looking at various alternatives for financing the company's $2.5 billion store expansion and modernization program. The case provides a listing of different ways/capital markets issues to obtain this financing. Designed to be... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Retail Industry; United States
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      Paul Hamilton

      Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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      • August 2007 (Revised July 2008)
      • Background Note

      Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network

      By: William R. Kerr and Daniel J. Isenberg
      Diaspora networks (DNs) are an important resource for global entrepreneurs. Discusses several features of DNs, combining both academic and practitioner perspectives. Describes the history and prevalence of DNs in many ethnicities, documents the broad resources DNs can... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Markets and Industries; Social and Collaborative Networks
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      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Black-box Training Data Identification in GANs via Detector Networks

      By: Lukman Olagoke, Salil Vadhan and Seth Neel
      Since their inception Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been popular generative models across images, audio, video, and tabular data. In this paper we study whether given access to a trained GAN, as well as fresh samples from the underlying distribution, if... View Details
      Keywords: Cybersecurity; Copyright; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science
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      • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
      • Case

      Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

      By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
      In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important... View Details
      Keywords: Water; Pricing; Nonprofit Organizations; Projects; Price; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Equity; Green Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Africa; Dubai
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      • February 2012 (Revised January 2013)
      • Case

      The New York Times Paywall

      By: Vineet Kumar, Bharat Anand, Sunil Gupta and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      On March 28, 2011, The New York Times website became a restricted site where most of the content was protected behind a "paywall." Users who exceeded the limit of 20 free articles per month were required to pay for either a digital or print subscription. The newspaper... View Details
      Keywords: Newspapers; Strategy; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry
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      • Program

      Program for Leadership Development

      reflect greater confidence and capabilities Capitalize on the opportunities unleashed by digital transformation Formulate a detailed action plan to address your strategic and leadership challenges Build... View Details
      • January 1998 (Revised June 1998)
      • Case

      Li & Fung: Beyond "Filling in the Mosaic," 1995-1998

      By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
      In early 1998, William and Victor Fung had to review their business, the Li & Fung Group, to plan for the next three years. Examines strategic and organizational issues including company culture, international expansion, and venture capital projects. A rewritten... View Details
      Keywords: Management Teams; Venture Capital; Organizational Culture; Global Strategy; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Strategic Planning; Asia
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        When Should a Social Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?

        Existing economic wisdom offers unequivocal advice to managers seeking to establish new platform businesses: Invest to acquire users as quickly as possible and make sure that they have ... View Details

        • 02 Aug 2017
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Machine Learning Methods for Strategy Research

        Keywords: by Mike Horia Teodorescu
        • February 1991 (Revised October 1991)
        • Case

        Fenchel Lampshade Co.

        By: William A. Sahlman
        Describes the proposed purchase of a lampshade manufacturer by Steven and Michele Rogers, recent graduates of the Harvard Business School. Focuses on their plans to raise the capital necessary to buy the company. Among the issues raised are how to structure the deal... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Negotiation Deal; Business or Company Management; Cost vs Benefits; Manufacturing Industry
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        • 02 Jun 2017
        • News

        Venture capital’s gender gap is costly for firms and the economy

        • Video

        MBA Fellowships 2013