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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

and would serve him well in the decades to come. 25 Christopher Hartman, Advance Man: The Life and Times of Harry Hoagland (Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2005), 26. 26 Doriot quoted in Spencer E. Ante, Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of View Details
  • 28 Dec 2016
  • News

In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)

Legendary venture capitalist and philanthropist Bill Bowes (MBA 1952) passed away on December 28. Bowes founded San Francisco’s US Venture Partners in 1981 and helped shape some of Silicon Valley’s biggest... View Details
  • May 2008 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

Finansbank 2006

By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
How do financial policy requirements and benefits of ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Capital Budgeting; Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Turkey; Greece
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  • January 2002
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Metromove.com Business Plan

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Sheila Marcelo
Enables analysis of a business plan in a volatile market. Also enables analysis of the decisions entrepreneurs must make as they start a new business, develop the concept, choose partners, and find funding. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships
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Eshan Tewari | MBA

Eshan Tewari Statistics Dunster 2021 Cohort 2 I've had a chance to work in technology from a host of different angles, spanning from ground level research to rapidly scaling startups to venture capital to... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

A Primer on Patents

HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 16 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

candidates. Unconscious bias and a resulting lack of diversity can also impact a company’s bottom line. A study of venture capital firms found that “the more similar the investment partners, the lower their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

The venture-capital industry is growing as well, but more slowly. “India doesn’t have the same ecosystem for venture capital as the United States,” notes Ashish Dhawan of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, they suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is... View Details
  • Forthcoming
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Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus When Financing Innovation

By: Andrey Malenko, Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Savitar Sundaresan
We document that investment committees of major VCs use a voting rule where one partner `championing' an early-stage investment is sufficient to invest. Their stated reason for this rule is to `catch outliers'. The same VCs use a more conventional `majority' rule for... View Details
Keywords: Optimal Voting Rules; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Voting
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  • November 2000
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UPromise

By: Michael J. Roberts and William A. Sahlman
Describes the development of UPromise, a company that has developed a loyalty program through which corporate partners can contribute to funds that finance the education of consumers' children. Presents the accomplishments prior to the company's second round of... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Markets; Programs
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  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • January 2009 (Revised March 2009)
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A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com

By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the one they first founded in 2006. Having changed their business model from a social networking site to an... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; China
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

these new practices actually alter company behavior, or create social value? How is and how should social value be defined and measured? In public markets, we evaluate the costs and benefits of negative screens, ESG integration, and activist investing. Private market... View Details
  • January 1994
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National Convenience Stores, Inc.

By: Steven R. Fenster, Stuart C. Gilson and Roy Burstin
National Convenience Stores seeks to emerge from Chapter 11. Central to the nature of the reorganization plan is the company's determining enterprise value. The various constituencies (secured debt, unsecured debt, etc.) will seek to find an enterprise value that... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Valuation; Restructuring; Strategic Planning; Borrowing and Debt; Food and Beverage Industry; Texas
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  • 2001
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The Diana Project: Women Business Owners and Equity Capital: The Myths Dispelled

By: Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia Green and Myra M. Hart
Keywords: Business Ventures; Gender; Capital
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  • 08 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2000
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Books

a set of entrepreneurial principles individuals can employ to transform their competitive arenas. Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories, edited by Udayan Gupta, provides a revealing history of the View Details
Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)
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Leila Meliani

In the January break between semesters this year, Leila Meliani participated in the Tech Club's WesTrek to Silicon Valley and arrived at a welcome epiphany. "We heard several venture capital partners... View Details
Keywords: Consulting

    Lyman Stewart

    Prior to starting the Hardison and Stewart Oil Company, the entity that later became Union Oil, Stewart engaged in several unsuccessful business ventures in the oil industry. At Union Oil, however, Stewart thrived as president, investing... View Details
    Keywords: Utilities & Energy