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- 03 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
widespread distress: Corporate credit quality and growth, says Harvard Business School Professor Victoria Ivashina. “It's only in the US in 2007 and 2008 that we observed the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
lasting effects on the VC industry side, a subject for another day. Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and head of the Finance Unit. Erik Stafford:... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- News
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
KKR, a private-equity giant, lays out its succession plan
- August 1998
- Article
Discussion of 'Venture Capital Financing, Moral Hazard, and Learning' by Dirk Bergemann and Ulrich Hege
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "Discussion of 'Venture Capital Financing, Moral Hazard, and Learning' by Dirk Bergemann and Ulrich Hege." Special Issue on The Economics of Small Business Finance Journal of Banking & Finance 22, nos. 6-8 (August 1998): 736–740.
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- News
How Women Business Owners Could Lift Emerging Markets' GDP By 12%
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
that fund young businesses are owned by Black or Hispanic founders and partners, traditionally the most likely source of capital for minority business ventures, says Josh... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2013
- Chapter
Discussion of "Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development" by Bruce Greenwald and Stiglitz Stiglitz
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. Discussion of "Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development" by Bruce Greenwald and Stiglitz Stiglitz. In The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology. no. 151-1, edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Justin Lin Yifu. IEA Conference Volume. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- 03 Jul 2010
- News
Hedge-Fund Lending Draws Scrutiny
- 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
- 27 Jun 2019
- News
Long-Term Investing, Short-Term Thinking
- 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
Lerner, Josh, and Anna Kovner. "Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture Capital." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 24, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 643–663.