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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Secrets Behind a VC Success Story

Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) never intended to make a career of venture capital. But he turned out to be pretty good at picking winners and helped propel Accel Partners into the ranks of the top VC firms. more Case-Method Godfather Chris... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2021
  • News

DraftKings Backs New VC Firm

Photo courtesy Drive By DraftKings A recent article in the Boston Globe reported that the venture capital firm Drive by DraftKings, led by Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), had raised its first venture fund. Called Drive by DraftKings, McPherron tells the newspaper that... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

Economic Research, Gompers teamed with Will Gornall of the University of British Columbia, Steven N. Kaplan of the University of Chicago, and Stanford University’s Ilya A. Strebulaev to survey more than 1,000 venture capitalists at 900 firms from late June to mid-July.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking
  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

much-needed cash but also expertise and advice. In a perfect world, everyone benefits. The VC firm takes an equity stake and makes money when the company succeeds, rewarding limited partners who have invested in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • News

Four Things Great VCs Do

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 26 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I had never met in person? Having... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 15 Jun 2016
  • News

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?

By: Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists'... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Persistence; Performance Persistence; Theory Of The Firm; Venture Capital; Organizations; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation
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  • 21 Apr 2022
  • News

How VCs Can Overcome the “Winner’s Curse”

  • Article

Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?

By: Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists'... View Details
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  • 09 Nov 2008
  • News

What Harvard says about Israeli VC

  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference

The media and entertainment business can be a bit of a roller-coaster ride — particularly in today’s climate of tight margins and consolidation. But that state of flux creates opportunity, agreed panelists at the Women’s Student Association’s 2004 Dyn-amic Women in... View Details
Keywords: women in business; women's student association; Arts, Entertainment
  • October 1999 (Revised March 2000)
  • Background Note

Venture Capital Negotiations: VC versus Entrepreneur

By: Robert J. Robinson and Noam T. Wasserman
Introduces students to the challenging negotiations between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Explores interests, sources of negotiating power, barriers to reaching agreement, and common contractual terms. Describes how the parties try to reduce information... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry
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  • 16 Jul 2020
  • News

VC Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Today's World

  • June 2024
  • Supplement

VC Journey Vignette (B): Navigating Turbulent Times

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Jackie Grant
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  • January 2013
  • Teaching Note

Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes (Brief Case)

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Sunru Yong
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  • September 2015
  • Article

(UN)Tangled: Exploring the Coevolution of VC Firm Reputation and Status

By: Timothy G. Pollock, Peggy M. Lee, Kyuho Jin and Kisha Lashley
We explore the relationship between status and reputation, examining how its dynamics change over time as these two intangible assets coevolve and how reputation and status are influenced by participation in highly visible events. Using a sample of more than 400... View Details
Keywords: Underpricing; Intangible Assets; New Firms; Status and Position; Reputation; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering
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  • 12 Sep 2016
  • News

HBS Alumni Startups Are Raking in VC Funds

New data shows that HBS alumni are leading the b-school pack in raising venture capital to fund their startups, according to an article on the website Business Because. According to data compiled by PitchBook, 1,069 HBS MBAs have founded 961 companies and raised $22.4... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • June 2024
  • Case

VC Journey Vignette (A): Board Formation and Onboarding

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Jackie Grant
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  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Video

VC Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Today's World