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    George A. Riedel

    George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and... View Details

    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

    Professorship of Business Administration, "HBS alumni were directly involved in establishing the modern mutual fund industry and continue in prominent leadership positions today. Much like management consulting and View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
    • January 2019
    • Article

    Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
    The economics of partnerships have been of enduring interest to economists, but many issues regarding intergenerational conflicts and their impact on the continuity of these organizations remain unclear. We examine 717 private equity partnerships and show that (a) the... View Details
    Keywords: Partnerships; Leveraged Buyout; Partners and Partnerships; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Leveraged Buyouts
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Too Much, Too Soon? Early Funding, Technological Unconventionality, and Innovation Capabilities

    By: Harsh Ketkar and Maria Roche
    The availability of financial resources significantly shapes firm innovation outcomes, especially for early-stage, innovation-focused technology firms. However, prior research has provided conflicting findings about this relationship: On the one hand, resource... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Technology Strategy; Novelty; Unconventionality; Resource Constraints; Early Stage Firms; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurial Finance
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    • 08 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

    managers to unlearn their racial and gender bias; and later receiving a full-time impact investing offer from another fund. The Strategic Philanthropy Bridge Mbanusi knew that it wouldn’t be enough to make connections into View Details
    • 18 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 18

    un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2003 (Revised June 2003)
    • Case

    Risk Arbitrage: Abbott Labs and Alza (A)

    By: George C. Chacko, Randolph B. Cohen, Marc Chennault and Andrew Kuhlman
    A hedge fund is trying to decide whether to capitalize on a seeming risk arbitrage opportunity that exists during the Abbott Labs acquisition of ALZA. View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Funds
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      Christina R. Wing

      Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

      • February 2015 (Revised June 2017)
      • Case

      Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners

      By: Joseph B. Fuller, David J. Collis and Matthew G. Preble
      Josh Golomb, president and general manager of DaVita Rx (Rx), was about to meet with Kent Thiry, CEO of Rx's corporate parent, DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita), in August 2013. The two would discuss whether Golomb should lead a new DaVita venture, Paladina... View Details
      Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Startup Management; Startup; Strategic Positioning; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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      • 15 Jun 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

      You don’t know what you don’t know—and almost by definition new entrepreneurial ventures need a helping hand from established partners if they hope to succeed. “Startups suffer from what researchers call ‘liability of newness,’” says... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
      • 25 Aug 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

      convince others to join your company?” Attracting high-quality talent is an important challenge for any young firm, and it’s critical to establishing reputation and growth. Simply publicizing a well-known venture capital firm as a View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 25 Mar 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: March 25

      link: http://www.palgrave.com/Products/TitlePrint.aspx?PID=362801 August 2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Laura Huang, Sarah... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • January 1991
      • Case

      Redhook Ale Brewery

      A small microbrewer prepares to negotiate a credit facility with its bank to partially fund major expansion. View Details
      Keywords: Small Business; Corporate Finance
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      • September 2019
      • Case

      Nimbus Therapeutics

      By: Peter Barrett, Karim Lakhani and Julia Kelley
      This case focuses on Nimbus Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as its leadership team tries to determine the company’s long-term strategy. The startup’s founders structured Nimbus as a limited liability company, which has given it... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
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      • January 2003 (Revised June 2003)
      • Case

      Adams Capital Management: March 2002

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      In March 2002, the five partners of Adams Capital Management (ACM), a venture capital firm investing in information technology telecommunications with $700 million under management, gathered to discuss whether they should change their strategy in view of the prolonged... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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        William C. Kirby

        William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; wine
        • 09 Apr 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

        A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital... View Details
        Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
        • August 2001 (Revised April 2002)
        • Case

        Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)

        By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
        Strategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently sold approximately 20% of its Internet auction subsidiary, Ubid, to the public at $15 per share. Ubid's stock... View Details
        Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Subsidiaries; Internet and the Web; Investment Funds; Price; Performance Efficiency; Capital Markets; Auctions; Investment Return; Equity; Planning; Financial Services Industry
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        • 2008
        • Working Paper

        The Future of Social Enterprise

        By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald

        The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details

        Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value
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        • June 2006 (Revised January 2012)
        • Case

        Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital (A)

        By: Boris Groysberg, Victoria Winston and Robin Abrahams
        Teena Lerner started her own hedge fund firm in 2001 after nearly 20 years as a star biotechnology analyst and hedge fund manager. After the start-up phase, her firm became highly profitable. In 2004, however, one of her four analysts lost a lot of money for the firm.... View Details
        Keywords: Managerial Roles; Investment Funds; Performance; Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry
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