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  • June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare

When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Health Industry; United States
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  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

By: Frank Nagle
This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government... View Details
Keywords: Social Value; Competitiveness; Government Administration; Information Technology; Acquisition; Policy; Value
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  • 16 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Opening Platforms: How, When and Why?

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker & Marshall Van Alstyne
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View Author:Thomas R. Eisenmann Abstract In a platform-mediated network, users rely on a common platform, provided by one or more intermediaries, that encompasses infrastructure and rules... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Equity; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Deal; Ownership Stake; Value
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    Accuracy, Timeliness, and Managerial Discretion of Fair Value Pricing Evidence from the US Banking Industry

    This paper investigates how recent institutional developments impact the potential channels, and thus available discretion, by which managers can manipulate reported fair values. First, I use extensive field research to document the mechanisms used by banks to procure... View Details
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

    By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
    This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Equity
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    • 23 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 23, 2008

    claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter 11 process has generated both costs and benefits for the company. Its future profitability, and the value of the reorganized business, are both highly uncertain. Purchase the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Jan 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15, 2008

    in diffusion of care delivery innovation; and cost transparency and quality measurement. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708424 TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted by Rachel Layne 22 MAR 2024 | Research & Ideas Many companies build their businesses on open source software, code that would cost firms $8.8 trillion to create from... View Details
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    Faculty & Research

    for democratic legitimacy. Building on a simple cost-benefit model of voting, we then review (quasi)-experimental work studying the effects of voting procedures and of other election rules. Voting procedures (which determine how people vote) primarily affect the View Details
    • 27 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

    having the most material ESG issues, as well as investors anticipating proprietary and political costs as a result of the mandated disclosures. Overall, the results are consistent with the equity market... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Sep 2023
    • HBS Case

    How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

    monetized. At minimum, I can tell you that we are going to need new business models, and the integration of generative AI is going to transform how we monetize software and the business model. Rand: How so? Wu: Our notions of fixed cost... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
    • 22 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

    wasn't as big of a deal, because you could just retrain the model from scratch. Just throw out that data and do it again. That's really not plausible when training a model takes months and costs many millions of dollars. You can't afford... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • Research Summary

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    By: Boris Vallee
    Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    slowdown in traditional fundraising, figuring out how to facilitate individual investors access to private equity has become increasingly attractive. Moonfare was among the first to enable individual investors to access a range of private equity funds by developing... View Details
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    Fellowship Lucinda Bhavsar and Avanish "Av" Bhavsar (both MBA 1997) established this fellowship in honor of their 20th Reunion to provide support to students who would otherwise be unable to afford the cost of an education at the School.... View Details
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    Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research

    The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details