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Chan Jillian Jordan Amit Goldenberg Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Negotiation and Diplomacy James Sebenius Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and... View Details

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the World Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Stuart C. Gilson Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring... View Details

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

School professor Josh Lerner, an expert in intellectual property protection and commercialization. He believes many companies have failed to recognize the growing importance of IP in the global economy.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

users out of luck. Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and his colleagues are studying how SSOs balance the interests of users against the interest of sponsors to... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

Corporate cutbacks could stall R&D and hinder innovation, argues Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner. In this Q&A, Lerner looks over the state of the venture... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

protest," Lerner says. "But if such a policy is encouraged by antitrust bodies and courts, it could be beneficial for society as a whole View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

2013
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Discussion of "Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development" by Bruce Greenwald and Stiglitz Stiglitz

By: Josh Lerner

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16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

pay-off, no reward? Could it be driven, as some media reports have admiringly suggested, purely by intellectual fervor on the part of programmers, perhaps coupled with a noble desire to share and dispense... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

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Chan Jillian Jordan Amit Goldenberg Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Negotiation and Diplomacy James Sebenius Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and... View Details

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

and continuity of the firm” This pattern of unequal pay was much more extensive than anticipated among the 717 private equity partnerships studied by HBS finance professor Victoria Ivashina View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Fall 2015
Article

Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture Capital

By: Josh Lerner and Anna Kovner

This paper examines the investments and performance of community development venture capital (CDVC). We find substantial differences between CDVC and traditional venture capital (VC) investments: CDVC investments are far more likely to be in nonmetropolitan regions and... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Venture Capital

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11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

billion--but analysts have been disappointed by a share price in the mid-teens. Are RLBOs really the risky, under-performing investment that is claimed? In fact, says Harvard Business School Professor Josh... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

government in making it a success. "Particularly during the early years, the government played a critical role in shaping Silicon Valley," especially spending and funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, writes HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne