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  • 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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  • 13 Jan 2022
  • News

Smart Judgment Will Outweigh Dumb Luck in the Venture Capital World

  • 18 Apr 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Popular Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes

By: Arlen Guarin, Christian Posso, Estefania Saravia and Jorge Tamayo
Identifying the effect of physicians’ skills on health outcomes is a challenging task due to the nonrandom sorting between physicians and hospitals. We overcome this challenge by exploiting a Colombian government program that randomly assigned 2,126 physicians to 618... View Details
Keywords: Physicians' Health Skills; Health Birth Outcomes; Birthing Outcomes; Experimental Evidence; Health Care and Treatment; Competency and Skills; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Colombia
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  • 19 Apr 2021
  • Podcast

72. Making Your Own Luck in Emerging Economies: Innovative Strategies for Creating New Markets

In this episode, Efosa Ojomo returns to The Disruptive Voice to discuss his latest research at The Christensen Institute’s Global Prosperity group. He and his colleague, Lincoln Wilcox, recently published a report highlighting six innovative strategies for creating new... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2016
  • Video

Clay Christensen (MBA 1979, DBA 1992) – A Personal Perspective on Competing Against Luck

    André Esteves

    Keywords: Financial Services
    • January 2013
    • Case

    Arthur Rock

    By: Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and Liz Kind
    Arthur Rock was known as one of the country's first venture capitalists and was instrumental in launching major Silicon Valley firms, such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel Corporation, Apple Computer, Inc., Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne Incorporated. He was the... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Success; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; California
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
    We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
    Keywords: History; Natural Environment; Non-Renewable Energy; Values and Beliefs; Price; Poverty; Policy; Economy; United States
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
    We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Price; Policy; Government and Politics; Poverty; Welfare; Energy Industry; United States
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    • 2013
    • Comment

    Fairness and Redistribution: Comment

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
    In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)—henceforth, AA—argued that a preference for fairness could lead two identical societies to choose different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the... View Details
    Keywords: Taxes; Beliefs; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Taxation
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    • 01 Apr 2013
    • Video

    chillbaby - Episode 2 - Lessons Learned

    • 27 Jun 2012
    • News

    Real Vacations Are Good for You: Take Them and Turn Off

    • 26 Jul 2019
    • News

    Amazon Needs to Tame Its Wild West Marketplace

    • March 2017
    • Supplement

    Mobileye: The Future of Driverless Cars

    By: David B. Yoffie
    This video is a supplement to the Mobileye case. The co-founder, Chairman, and CTO, Amnon Shashua, discussed how Mobileye tries to create a sustainable advantage; how it prices its products; whether it should collaborate or not with Google; and how much of its... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Positioning; Driverless Car; Competitive Strategy; Alliances; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Israel
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    • 29 Mar 2019
    • Interview

    Integrating Theory into Your Organization: Black Duck by Synopsys

    By: Lou Shipley
    The Disruptive Voice hits the road, heading to BlackDuck by Synopsys headquarters in Burlington, MA. We sit down with Lou Shipley (CEO), Patrick Carey (Director of Product Marketing), and Tim Kenny (VP of Culture) to hear how Competing Against Luck became a company... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Company Culture; Disruption; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Technology; Organizational Culture
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    • 25 Oct 2010
    • HBS Case

    Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

    Tesco PLC is the third-largest retailer in the world, just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. But that didn't make the UK-based chain immune from many costly mistakes as it entered the US market in 2006. For example, it opened some of its Fresh & Easy stores on the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 13 Sep 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

    Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally unbalanced battles: the Chicago Cubs versus the New York Yankees, Apple versus Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines versus United. In the public eye, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Negotiation Ethics and Moral Decisionmaking

    By: Michael A. Wheeler

    Whenever people and organizations negotiate, they implicitly decide what -- if anything -- they owe their counterparts in regard to candor, distributional fairness, and the possible use of pressure. The deals that they reach may also have impacts on stakeholders who... View Details

    • 21 Nov 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: November 21, 2006

    patterns. We present a model where beliefs determine the types of contracts that firms offer and whether workers exert effort. Some workers become criminals, depending on their luck in the labor market, the expected punishment, and an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne