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  • 05 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School on November 19. As an industry, he suggested, venture capital has little to recommend it. "In the future, I see a median rate of return of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services
  • 21 Feb 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Rodrigo Wagner, Tufts University

    Lynn S. Paine

    Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

    • 05 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

    of firm entry and exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7

    together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction enhances or detracts from performance. Addressing these problems in the venture capital syndication... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 2, 2010

    with limited financial resources can then focus on supplying superior bottleneck modules, while outsourcing and allowing complementors to supply non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Ashish Nanda

      Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
      • October 2008 (Revised September 2009)
      • Case

      Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (A)

      By: J. Gunnar Trumbull and Akiko Kanno
      Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks as well as international investors. Most... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Foreign Direct Investment; Personal Finance; Courts and Trials; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Japan
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      • 25 Sep 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: September 25, 2007

      venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Lightspeed Venture Partners believed that India had tremendous potential for View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 28 Apr 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Payout Policy

      Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz
      • April 2005 (Revised January 2007)
      • Case

      Furman Selz LLC (A): A Tale of Two Acquisitions

      By: Nancy D. Beaulieu, Boris Groysberg and Kyle Doherty
      Profiles a firm that was reacquired by two companies with different degrees of success. Highlights integration challenges present in acquisition deals when the primary assets of the target are human capital. Focuses on Furman Selz's acquisition by Xerox in 1987; its... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transition; Valuation; Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Integration; Organizational Culture; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      • June 2007
      • Exercise

      EZAmuse Negotiation Background (A)

      By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
      This is the background to an exercise in negotiation. A promising venture-capital-backed company, EZAmuse Communications, is raising a B round. Its existing backer, Reality Venture Partners, would like it to raise enough for six or nine months, when it will have... View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Negotiation Deal; Valuation; Leadership Style; Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Product; Germany
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      • December 1998 (Revised December 1999)
      • Case

      Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Client Services

      By: Thomas J. DeLong, David M. Darst, Ann K Rusher and Catherine M. Conneely
      The 1997 merger of retail giant Dean Witter and investment bank Morgan Stanley was a year old when Bob Sculthorpe was appointed director of Private Client Services (PCS) at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MSDW). The firm was still operating under two separate broker-dealer... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Divisions; Investment Banking; Brands and Branding; Salesforce Management; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry
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      • 14 Oct 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

      • 19 Feb 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

      save BlackBuck—but at the risk of losing control. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/819031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-020 RunKeeper The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 21 Nov 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: November 21, 2006

      first time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. Funding by more experienced venture capital firms enhances the chance of success, but only for entrepreneurs... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 06 May 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: May 6

      Sustainability companies. The boards of directors of High Sustainability companies are more likely to be formally responsible for sustainability, and top executive compensation incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • October 2015
      • Case

      Integrating Avocent Corporation into Emerson Network Power

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Vincent M. Servello
      This case reviews Emerson Electric’s proposed acquisition of Avocent Corporation in 2009. The focus of this case is how a technology company such as Avocent, with a dramatically different business model compared to its acquirer, should be integrated into a large,... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Integration; Human Capital; Acquisition; Technology Industry
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      • November 2013
      • Article

      Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

      By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
      We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional on going public are valued higher on the day of their IPO, have more patents, and have more citations to their patents. Our results suggest... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Market Cycles; Financing Risk; Risk and Uncertainty; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention
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      • 16 Apr 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Breaking the Code of Change

      cases. Scott Paper under Dunlap delivered dramatic increases in shareholder value. The firm's market capitalization at the time of sale was three times what it was at the time Dunlap took over the firm only... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria