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  • 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
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
  • 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
Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2013
  • Chapter

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
  • 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
  • March 1999
  • Article

Discussion of "Engineering Bureaucracy: The Genesis of Formal Policies, Positions, and Structures in High-Technology Firms" by James N. Baron, M. Diane Burton, and Michael T. Hannan

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Engineering; Technology Industry
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  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Article

Discussion of "Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act in the United States" by David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Education; Information Technology; Patents; Law; Communication; United States
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  • 22 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Behind the Private Equity Boom?

Podcast with: Josh Lerner Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 15 min., 56 sec. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Financial Services
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

examines investments made by 13 angel groups across 21 countries. We compare applicants just above and below the funding cutoff and find that these angel investors have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

ways that are often invisible. A provocative new book by economists Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner describes what's wrong, but shines a light on... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55194 Large Banks and Small Firm Lending By: Bord, Vitaly, Victoria Ivashina, and Ryan D. Taliaferro Abstract—We show that since... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa

By: Michael A. Wheeler
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details
Keywords: Art; Negotiation; Arts
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