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- 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
Chen, Henry, Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner, and Josh Lerner. "Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Capital Expansion." Journal of Urban Economics 67, no. 1 (January 2010): 90–110.
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers, and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence that the quality of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
enjoyed the chance to build and deepen relationships with over one hundred diverse, local leaders, from Black and Brown business owners whose innovation and resilience is inspiring, to corporate executives authentically trying to figure... View Details
- February 1996
- Case
Eastman Chemical Company: Building a Board from Scratch
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
Eastman Chemical Co. spun off from Kodak in 1993. The CEO of Eastman, Earnest Deavenport did not want the new company's board any members of the Kodak board to include, so he initiated a deliberate and thorough process to build an entirely new board that he hoped would... View Details
Lorsch, Jay W., and Samanta Graff. "Eastman Chemical Company: Building a Board from Scratch." Harvard Business School Case 496-043, February 1996.
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Snappy Salute
Pinchuk: CEO of a precision-tool company doesn’t exactly fit the mold. As CEO of Snap-on, Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA ’76) heads a company that’s all about precise fits for its tools. But he himself is no standard-issue corporate chieftain. A... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
deep conviction that Islamism could not provide an effective model of governance in the twentieth century and therefore would collapse of its own accord within months after the Islamists seized power. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
creditors, the communities where the corporation does business, and society as a whole. The duties and responsibilities of the corporation to the stakeholders are expressed in various laws, regulations,... View Details
- Career Coach
Philippe Taieb
since 2013. Besides providing career counseling, Philippe assists his clients with what keeps them up at night and what their pain points are. He enjoys meaningful connections. Philippe has 25 years of professional experience, in the View Details
Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
- January 2023 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Peloton Interactive (A)
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and David Lane
Early in February 2022, the board of Peloton Interactive faced some knotty challenges. Immense pandemic demand for its stationary exercise bicycles and treadmills had prompted the firm to scale up production rapidly. But as gyms reopened and the virulence of the virus... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth Management; Investment Activism; Leadership; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Sports Industry; United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, Lynn S. Paine, and David Lane. "Peloton Interactive (A)." Harvard Business School Case 323-005, January 2023. (Revised April 2025.)
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Dominique Senequier, have been asked to review and assess the governance model the firm uses for majority-owned companies in its portfolio. The case describes the governance model and then shows how it has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged from constructing new stock market indices based on ESG data, changing the compensation and incentives of active investment managers and passive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, left the corporate world to launch Social Venture Partners (SVP) India, which brings together concerned citizens to solve economic and social problems through venture... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
New York members, based on research by business executive Katherine Gehl and HBS Professor Michael Porter, detailing how partisan polarization has rendered government ineffective. That research resulted in a recently-released book, The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
and consumer lending. The researchers chose to study risk-management experts because their role has risen in importance with demands for improved corporate governance and the need for better forecasting and... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- June 2001
- Case
NESWC (A)
Documents attempts to restructure a public-private partnership between the operator of a $200 million trash-to-energy cogeneration plant and a consortium of two dozen Massachusetts municipalities. Describes the process that led to a one-sided agreement, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Energy Generation; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Process; Partners and Partnerships; Wastes and Waste Processing; Energy Industry; Massachusetts
Wheeler, Michael A. "NESWC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-067, June 2001.
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CVS Health
Corporate Intern Program. We hire interns across a diversity of business areas working on market-shaping strategies in areas which include Digital Innovations, Merchandising, Marketing, Analytics, Product Development, and View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
featuring Donald S. Beyer, U.S. Congressman from Virginia and Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force; Anne Kelly, (Harvard Kennedy School, 1996) VP of Government Relations, Ceres; Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006),... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books about the... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso