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Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship explores the exciting world of active investing and lays out in a clear and readily accessible way their key features, ways of doing business and likely evolution. The book follows the... View Details
- January 2006 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
Vivaldi Food Concepts--The Start-up of an Asian Venture (A)
Joel Silverstein needs to raise an additional $1.5 million from private investors to round out the equity financing for his new Quick Service Restaurant venture in China, Korea, and Japan. How should he pitch the opportunity? What should be the terms? View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business Startups; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; China; South Korea
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Vivaldi Food Concepts--The Start-up of an Asian Venture (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-118, January 2006. (Revised August 2008.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda
We examine the extent to which venture capital is adequately positioned for the rapid commercialization of clean energy technologies in the United States. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Energy Generation; Venture Capital; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Competition; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ramana Nanda. "Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-020, August 2010.
- 29 Apr 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Holds 14th Annual Business Plan Contest
- Web
About the Program - Summer Venture in Management
Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management About the Program About the Program Curious to know what a “day in the life” of an MBA student is like? Experience it first-hand at the Summer View Details
- 08 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know Past New Venture Competition Winners: Everly Health
With the New Venture Competition (NVC) Finale right around the corner and in celebration of the competition’s 25 years at Harvard Business School, we caught up with some of the past participants across the... View Details
- 06 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion
to business plan development (for a new idea, separate from the prototype we worked on in Part 1). In just five days, the course covers Business Model Design, Early-Stage Marketing, Seed Finance, Early Team... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Winners & Runners-Up 2024 Winners Play Crop Diagnostix: Dubilier Grand Prize Winner, Student Business Track, 2024 New Venture Competition video Play Video duration: 1:31 2024 New View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital
eager to use their business acumen to identify growing companies and help them prosper. Each year, Jonathan and Katja see several hundred students join the Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, engage... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
Four alumni ventures from distinctly different industries and geographies have been chosen to pitch at the 2017 alumni New Venture Competition on April 25 on the HBS campus. This year's finalists were... View Details
- March 2015
- Article
Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage
By: Humberto Brea-Solís, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Emili Grifell-Tatjé
We develop an analytical framework on the basis of the economics of business performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Business Models; Quantitative Analysis; Walmart; Production Theory; Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Profit
Brea-Solís, Humberto, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili Grifell-Tatjé. "Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 9, no. 1 (March 2015): 12–33.
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
ventures in a new study. For founders just trying to keep a fledgling business going, a cash injection—from any source—can make all the difference in launching a critical product. However, founders who don’t... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 2010
- Journal Article
Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on competitiveness by using the business model concept and to understand the need to adapt business models to changes in the environment. View Details
Keywords: Modeling Innovation; Business Improvement; Spain; Competitive Strategy; Business Model; Change; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Situation or Environment; Competition
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan E. Ricart. "Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization." Management Research 8, no. 2 (2010): 123–149.
- 1999
- Book
The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995
McCraw, T. K., ed. The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- 14 May 2015
- Blog Post
Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students
For Rudina Seseri, coming to HBS as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence was a kind of homecoming. A 2005 graduate of HBS, Rudina has spent much of the last decade working as a venture capitalist - investing in startups and working closely with... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
Recruiters reviewing hundreds of resumes for highly coveted roles in private equity and venture capital will often see candidates with backgrounds in banking and investing. This training and experience provides candidates with excellent... View Details
- September 2024
- Article
Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
By: Sabrina T. Howell and Ramana Nanda
We find that male participants in Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition who were randomly exposed to more VC investors on their panel were substantially more likely to start a VC-backed startup post-graduation, indicating that access to investors impacts... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Information Frictions; Venture Capital; Gender; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship
Howell, Sabrina T., and Ramana Nanda. "Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 59, no. 6 (September 2024): 2733–2761.