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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
University endowment’s investment choices and of venture-capital-backed IPO run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
prepared to accompany the CommonAngels case (No. 807-149), enables students to decide whether to invite an entrepreneur to present to potential angel investors. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808145 Banco Compartamos:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
scream of a brave new world and traveling salesmen hawking IPOs instead of snake oil. (The connection, of course, may not be that distant.) As on any good frontier, there are not a lot of rules or marshals in town, so justice is rough and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
before beginning a new venture: What am I betting on? Do I know my economic model? Will I be able to formulate a sound strategy that seizes opportunity and combats threat? Will management be able to transform and reinvent the organization? If there is no View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
agency-based predictions. The evidence does not confirm managerial discretion is being used to convey private information. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-014.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Blackstone Group's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
investors' initial reactions to the IPO, analyst coverage and affiliations with experienced venture capitalists and prominent underwriters combine to enhance the IPO firm's visibility and reduce uncertainty, thereby influencing its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
IPO in 1990 to a $10-billion company today, with a market value of close to $140 billion! I'm also doing research for a case on Drugstore.com, which is essentially a drug store "built" on the Internet. It's getting ready to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
new online entrants present a challenge to established players in the small business lending marketplace. They have been on the scene since 2007, but momentum has increased significantly in the last 12 to18 months. Lending Club recently filed for an View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
welfare reform, as well as the effective tax rates of both investors and workers. Another important theme relates to Slovakia's desire to join the EU and adopt the Euro. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707043 Warburg... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
where the supply of shares offered to the public is very small. Because only optimistic investors buy, and it is difficult for others to go short, many IPOs end up being overpriced. Q: What do you think Livedoor's legacy will be? A: It is... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Over that span, he had helped three of his portfolio companies through IPOs and helped Khosla Ventures raise its third fund, bringing the total outside capital raised by the group to more than $2.1 billion. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are less likely to IPO but, conditional on going public, are valued higher on the day of their IPO, have more patents, and have more citations to their patents. Our results suggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs By: Koning, Rembrand, and John-Paul Ferguson Abstract— Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
http://hbr.org/product/fast-ion-battery/an/815025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 115-017 Alibaba Goes Public In 2014 Alibaba debuted on the New York Stock exchange, creating the largest IPO in history, but this initial desire to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
dominates the negative within-firm effect post IPO. We build a firm industry model with endogenous entry to quantify the importance of two competing selection mechanisms: an increasing share of R&D–intensive firms in the overall economy and more favorable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
how to manage vendors, equipment suppliers, and customers; how to conduct research, and so on. The final section surveys how to take the organization to a different level and sustain it: How do you make the transition? We discuss several cases on View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
Massachusetts, is assessing its investment in Tableau, a data visualization company. Tableau, which conducted an IPO a few years ago, has been experiencing substantial growth as it aims at disrupting the business intelligence software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the impact of the Yale University endowment's investment choices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
taking in the U.S. is inconclusive. The evidence for and social welfare implications of claimed effects such as fewer IPOs or loss of foreign listings are unclear. Financial reporting quality appears to have gone up after SOX, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
approximately 3,200 executives who took biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996; these data show that almost one quarter of these firms had someone on their IPO team who once worked at Baxter. Even after accounting for Baxter's... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark