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  • February 2002 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Endeca Technologies (A)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Steve Papa, CEO of Endeca Technologies, must decide among two term sheets raising the same amount of badly needed money for his young software company. One deal is led by insiders and, is offered at a lower price. It continues a board that has worked very well and... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; Management Skills; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Technology Industry
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  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

Creating a Venture Ecosystem in Brazil: FINEP's INOVAR Project Authors:Ann Leamon and Josh Lerner Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2014
  • Article

The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings

By: William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use strong discontinuities in angel funding... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Financing and Loans; Interests; Employment; Patents; Internet and the Web; Operations; Entrepreneurship; Business Exit or Shutdown
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  • January 2008
  • Article

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets

By: Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner and David Scharfstein
It is well documented that the venture capital industry is highly volatile and that much of this volatility is associated with shifting valuations and activity in public equity markets. This paper examines how changes in public market signals affected venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Market Cycles; Venture Capital; Investment; Experience and Expertise; Public Equity; Volatility; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Measuring Impact

the findings of the inaugural Harvard Impact Study, the University’s first effort to quantify the economic and social contributions of its alumni. HBS professor Josh Lerner led... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • January 2010
  • Article

Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Capital Expansion

By: Henry Chen, Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner and Josh Lerner
We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that venture capital firms locate in regions with high success rates of venture... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Expansion; Success; Capital; Geographic Location; Business Units; Corporate Accountability; Business Offices; Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Boston; New York (state, US); San Francisco
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  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

What Is Harvard’s Impact in the World?

who have founded firms and social enterprises. With the support of Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, HBS professor Josh Lerner will survey the entire active alumni community... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

  Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

resulting from the liberalization of the Turkish economy. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811081-PDF-ENG Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange Josh Lerner View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Spring 2013
  • Article

The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Strategy; Investment Funds
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  • September 2013
  • Article

Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

By: Lily H. Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

Publication:In Innovation Policy and the Economy. Vol. 11, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. NBER Book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Book: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2217627   Working Papers Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Becker, Bo, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410079-PDF-ENG Microsoft's IP Ventures Josh Lerner and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-096 Microsoft's IP Ventures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2022
  • News

Softbank’s Executive Exodus Leaves Masayoshi Son in a Bind

  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

for entrepreneurship are there,” says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett- Learned Professor of Finance, who studies the MENA region and serves as faculty chair of the School’s Middle East View Details
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

had received? What was possible? Looking back, how should the company's restructuring be assessed? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/809165-PDF-ENG Momentive Performance Materials, Inc. Victoria View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract Theory predicts that there is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne