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  • 1999
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'Public Venture Capital': Rationales and Evaluation

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Venture Capital; Public Sector; Sovereign Finance
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Lerner, Josh. "'Public Venture Capital': Rationales and Evaluation." In The SBIR Program: Challenges and Opportunities, A Report on a Workshop, edited by Charles W. Wessner, 115–128. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999.
  • May 2002
  • Article

150 Years of Patent Protection

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Patents
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Lerner, Josh. "150 Years of Patent Protection." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 92, no. 2 (May 2002): 221–225. (American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 92 (May 2002) 221-225. Reprinted in John Cantwell, editor, The Economics of Patents. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2005. Reprinted in Robert P. Merges, editor, Economics of Intellectual Property Law. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2007. Reprinted in Carlos M. Correa, editor, Intellectual Property and Economic Development. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2018. Earlier versions distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper.)
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

thinkers formed an impression unbiased by the stereotype, suggesting a bottom-up strategy, whereas conscious thinkers relied on the stereotype, suggesting a top-down strategy. That is, when thinking consciously, participants relied more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • October 1996 (Revised March 2011)
  • Background Note

Note on Valuation in Private Equity Settings, A

By: Josh Lerner and John Willinge
This note discusses several ways in which venture-backed firms can be valued, including comparables, net present value, decision-tree analysis, and the "venture capital method." View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Valuation
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Lerner, Josh, and John Willinge. "Note on Valuation in Private Equity Settings, A." Harvard Business School Background Note 297-050, October 1996. (Revised March 2011.)
  • 1999
  • Other Unpublished Work

Capital Formation and Investment in Venture Markets: Implications for the Advanced Technology Program

By: Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
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Gompers, Paul, and Josh Lerner. "Capital Formation and Investment in Venture Markets: Implications for the Advanced Technology Program." December 1999. (A Report to the Advanced Technology Program and the National Bureau of Economic Research.)
  • February 2013
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Institutions and Venture Capital

By: Josh Lerner and Joacim Tag
We survey the literature on venture capital and institutions and present a case study comparing the development of the venture capital market in the United States and Sweden. Our literature survey underscores that the legal environment, financial market development,... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Organizations; Taxation; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; United States; Sweden
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Lerner, Josh, and Joacim Tag. "Institutions and Venture Capital." Industrial and Corporate Change 22, no. 1 (February 2013): 153–182.
  • October 2012 (Revised July 2014)
  • Background Note

The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital

By: Josh Lerner and Tom Nicholas
Whether the government or markets, or a mixture of both, can provide efficient and effective incentives for encouraging entrepreneurial activity and new venture financing is an age-old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial and in most cases they tend to... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business and Government Relations; United States
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Lerner, Josh, and Tom Nicholas. "The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 813-096, October 2012. (Revised July 2014.)
  • September 2012 (Revised January 2013)
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Martin Smith: July 2012

By: Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon
Martin Smith, a recently hired general partner at a Brazil-based venture capital firm, must decide among three deal opportunities. Each has different strengths (management, market, and technology) but each has its own weaknesses as well. He must also consider each deal... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Deal Choice; Venture Capital; Investments; Career Management; Management Teams; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost vs Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry; Brazil
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Lerner, Josh, and Felda Hardymon. "Martin Smith: July 2012." Harvard Business School Case 813-067, September 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
  • November 2011
  • Teaching Note

Angels in British Columbia (TN)

By: Josh Lerner and Thomas Hellmann
Keywords: British Columbia
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Lerner, Josh, and Thomas Hellmann. "Angels in British Columbia (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 812-080, November 2011.
  • March 2010 (Revised January 2012)
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Microsoft's IP Ventures

By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Microsoft's IP Ventures program, through which Microsoft spun out promising but unused technologies into new companies, is a new approach to corporate venture capital. The program provides "IP for equity" and has proven very successful in achieving its main... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Intellectual Property; Rights; Software; Washington (state, US)
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Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Microsoft's IP Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 810-096, March 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
  • September 2006
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A Model of Forum Shopping, with Special Reference to Standard Setting Organizations

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Keywords: Standards; Organizations
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Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "A Model of Forum Shopping, with Special Reference to Standard Setting Organizations." American Economic Review 96, no. 4 (September 2006): 1091–1113. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10664.)
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The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Keywords: Economics; Technology
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Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond." Journal of Economic Perspectives 19, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 99–120. (Earlier version distributed as NBER Working Paper Series No. w10956.)
  • April 2004
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The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence from Private Equity

By: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Theory; Information
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Lerner, Josh, and Antoinette Schoar. "The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence from Private Equity." Journal of Financial Economics 72, no. 1 (April 2004): 3–40.
  • June 2002
  • Article

Some Simple Economics of Open Source

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Keywords: Economics
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Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "Some Simple Economics of Open Source." Journal of Industrial Economics 50, no. 2 (June 2002): 197–234. (Earlier versions distributed as HBS Working Paper No. 00-068 and NBER Working Paper No. 7600.)
  • May 2021 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

CPE and SUS Environmental: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em

By: Josh Lerner and Franko Jira
In July 2016, Di Yang and Grace Guo of the leading Chinese private equity group CPE faced a dilemma—a happy dilemma, but a challenge nonetheless. CPE’s investment in the waste-to-energy firm SUS Environment had proved to be exceedingly successful. This success had... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment Return; Growth and Development
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Lerner, Josh, and Franko Jira. "CPE and SUS Environmental: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em (A)." Harvard Business School Case 821-085, May 2021. (Revised September 2021.)
  • 07 Aug 2012
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experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1994 (Revised July 1998)
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Repligen Corporation: January 1992

By: Josh Lerner and David Kane
Sandford Smith, CEO of Repligen, faces the breakdown of negotiations about a proposed joint venture with a large pharmaceutical firm. He must decide whether to proceed using his firm's internal resources or whether to seek to revise the proposed collaboration. If the... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decisions; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Value
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Lerner, Josh, and David Kane. "Repligen Corporation: January 1992." Harvard Business School Case 294-082, January 1994. (Revised July 1998.)
  • April 1993 (Revised February 1996)
  • Supplement

ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (B1): Rights Offering Strategy

By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano
Supplements the (A) case. Describes the CEO's decision. View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Intellectual Property
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Lerner, Josh, and Peter Tufano. "ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (B1): Rights Offering Strategy." Harvard Business School Supplement 293-125, April 1993. (Revised February 1996.)
  • 2004
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Venture Capital

By: Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
Keywords: Venture Capital
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Gompers, Paul, and Josh Lerner. "Venture Capital." Chap. D5 of Handbook of Modern Finance, edited by James Seward and Dennis Logue. New York: Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 2004.
  • winter 2000
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Assessing the Impact of Venture Capital to Innovation

By: Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner
We examine the influence of venture capital on patented inventions in the United States across twenty industries over three decades. We address concerns about causality in several ways, including exploiting a 1979 policy shift that spurred venture capital fundraising.... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention
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Kortum, Samuel, and Josh Lerner. "Assessing the Impact of Venture Capital to Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 31, no. 4 (winter 2000): 674–692. (Supplemental appendix.)
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