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Howard E. Cox | Baker Library

capital. Howard joined Greylock, a private venture capital firm founded in Boston in 1965. He has been actively involved in healthcare, has served on numerous boards, and was a director of the Boston Globe when it was sold to the New York... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
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Making Markets

how are their products or services failing the market? Reviews & Roundups: Search Yelp, Amazon, Consumer Reports, Wirecutter, etc.  Hubspot has additional suggestions. Capital IQ Financials/ratios and news;... View Details
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Special purpose acquisition companies

Business Review article: SPACs: what you need to know.  Additionally, LSEG Workspace, Pitchbook, Bloomberg, and and Capital IQ provide data on SPACs:  In LSEG... View Details
  • January 2014
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Maricopa, Inc.: Finding the Right Treatment for Growth

By: William A. Sahlman, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joseph B. Fuller and Shikhar Ghosh

The founders of Maricopa, Inc., a startup that sold proprietary hair-care products directly to salons, were preparing a board presentation to address the young company's inability to meet financial projections. While the products had caught on with customers, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Financial Condition; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Planning; Fashion Industry; Iowa
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Sahlman, William A., Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joseph B. Fuller, and Shikhar Ghosh. "Maricopa, Inc.: Finding the Right Treatment for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 314-065, January 2014.
  • October 2013
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Corporate Venturing

By: Josh Lerner
For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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Lerner, Josh. "Corporate Venturing." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 86–94.
  • August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
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Kmart and ESL Investments (A)

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds ("vulture investors") will own over 50% of reorganized Kmart's common stock, based on prior investments in Kmart's debt claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Investment Activism; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Kmart and ESL Investments (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-044, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
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The Role of Lockups in Initial Public Offerings

By: Alon Brav and Paul A. Gompers
In a sample of 2,794 initial public offerings (IPOs), we test three potential explanations for the existence of IPO lockups: lockups serve as (i) a signal of firm quality, (ii) a commitment device to alleviate moral hazard problems, or (iii) a mechanism for... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Compensation and Benefits; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Stock Shares; Going Public
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Brav, Alon, and Paul A. Gompers. "The Role of Lockups in Initial Public Offerings." Review of Financial Studies 16, no. 1 (Spring 2003).
  • June 2006
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AtHoc: Dealing With Disruption

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Brian DeLacey
Follows the growth of an entrepreneur from his early startup activities. As the company evolves from 1998 to 2005, looks at key decisions and turning points as AtHoc's strategy adapts in response to changing market environments, business opportunities, and customer... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Disruptive Innovation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Venture Capital
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Applegate, Lynda M., and Brian DeLacey. "AtHoc: Dealing With Disruption." Harvard Business School Case 806-073, June 2006.
  • November 2007
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Standing Out from the Crowd: The Visibility-Enhancing Effects of IPO-related Signals on Alliance Formation by Entrepreneurial Firms

By: Tim Pollock and Ranjay Gulati
In this study, we explore how multiple signals related to entrepreneurial companies at the time of their initial public offering (IPO) influence the firms' ability to acquire non-financial resources over time. Specifically, the study looks at how signals based on... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Alliances; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence
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Pollock, Tim, and Ranjay Gulati. "Standing Out from the Crowd: The Visibility-Enhancing Effects of IPO-related Signals on Alliance Formation by Entrepreneurial Firms." Strategic Organization 5, no. 4 (November 2007). (A shorter version of this paper appeared in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings, pp. 11-16, 2002.)
  • 02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Compensation data: private equity

Visitors. Ask for them at the desk in the Stamps Reading Room. Holt-MM&K-Buyouts Insider PE/VC compensation report  ... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
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HBS on Squawk Box

CNBC’s morning business show broadcast live from the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center’s Stamps Reading Room on February 9, giving faculty and alumni an opportunity to air their views on investing and access to capital. Host Carl Quintanilla (right) and cohost... View Details
  • January 2005 (Revised November 2005)
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Gobi Partners: October 2004

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
The general partners of Gobi Partners, a venture fund located in Shanghai, are trying to decide the best way to raise money for their first fund. Their strategy of investing in early-stage digital media companies in China was well-received by strategic investors--IBM... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Goals and Objectives; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Conflict Management; Shanghai
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Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Gobi Partners: October 2004." Harvard Business School Case 805-090, January 2005. (Revised November 2005.)
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

38,000 active international organizations from 300 countries and territories - including intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Capital IQ - profiles of public and private... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
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Strange Bedfellows

goal. Profits reported to tax authorities and to capital markets were essentially the same. Over time, well-considered exceptions — expensing of investments, for example — were introduced to advance policy goals such as stimulating... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government
  • 25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?

My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the enterprise in which I had... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 26 May 2003
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Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

define corporate transparency as the quantity and quality of information a company provides its various constituents including shareholders and other capital providers, suppliers, customers, employees, etc. In this paper, we measure this... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 15 Nov 2021
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Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959) Two institutions completely changed the life of Charles P. Waite, says Patti Waite Bishop about her late father, a venture capital pioneer and founding partner at Greylock Management: the US Army and Harvard... View Details

    Frank G. Hickey

    increased from $26 million to $100 million. More important than the financial success he achieved, Hickey prepared General Instruments to capitalize on the growth of the communications industry. View Details
    Keywords: Communications
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