Venturing - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Oct 2023
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The Value of an MBA in Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital

September 1998 (Revised May 1999)
Case

Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size

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Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Plan; Research; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

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Do Public Financial Statements Influence Private Equity and Venture Capital Financing?

By: Brian K. Baik, Natalie Berfeld and Rodrigo S. Verdi

We study whether private firm public financial statements influence the probability of raising venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) financing. In particular, we propose that private firms’ public financial statements can help the VC/PE search process by... View Details

Keywords: Business Economics; Search Costs; Accounting; Venture Capital; Governance; Private Equity; Financial Statements

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June 1999
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Interorganizational Endorsements and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Ventures

Keywords: Organizations; Performance; Entrepreneurship; Business Ventures

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2016
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Regional Variation in Venture Capital: Causes and Consequences

By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

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February 2015 (Revised February 2015)
Module Note

Venture Capital and Private Equity Simulation Administrators' Guide

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank

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September 2014
Supplement

HGRM (B): Launching Hoxell, a New IT Venture

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Gabriele Piccoli and Arnold Peinado

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Strategy; Growth Strategy And Execution; Business Models; Disruptive Technologies; Customer Relations; International Business; Entrepreneurship; Management Systems; Operations; Competitive Strategy

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August 15, 2001
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Keeping Venture Capitalists on the Straight and Narrow

By: Ashish Nanda

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07 Jan 2022
News

How to Go From Homelessness to Venture Capital

24 Apr 2019
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Blueland Wins 2019 New Venture Competition Alumni Track

25 Apr 2017
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Veho Wins 2017 New Venture Competition Business Track

4 PM – 5 PM EST, 10 Mar 2021
Virtual Programming

Meet the i-labs Unicorns: Celebrating Venture Success Stories

How did two Harvard Innovation Lab alumni teams achieve valuations of more than $1 billion. In a discussion moderated by i-lab executive director Matt Segneri (AB 2004, MBA 2010), Will Ahmed (AB 2012), founder and CEO of WHOOP, and Lissy Hu (MD/MBA 2014), founder and... View Details

1988
Chapter

Joint Ventures and Collaboration in the Biotechnology Industry

By: Gary P. Pisano, W. Shan and David Teece

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cooperation; Biotechnology Industry

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June 2016
Supplement

Duff & Phelps: Scaling an Entrepreneurial Venture (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and David Lane

In September 2005, Duff & Phelps closed on a deal to acquire a much larger firm that quadrupled its size to 500 employees. Almost immediately, the company faced challenging integration issues. Gottdiener and Silverman realize that they must now turn away from the... View Details

Keywords: Duff ＆ Phelps; Entrepreneurial Management; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Entrepreneurial Financing; Entrepreneurship; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Business Model; Organizational Structure; Management

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

Winners & Success Stories The New Venture Competition has been the launching pad for many ventures, and not just from the winning teams. With more than half of Harvard Business School alumni classifying themselves as entrepreneurs at some... View Details

fall 1985
Article

Supporting Innovation and Venture Development in Established Companies

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development; Business Ventures

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2001
Manual

Venture Capital and Private Equity: An Instructor's Manual

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Information

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October 2024
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Founder-CEO Compensation and Selection into Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship

By: Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Christopher Stanton

We show theoretically that a critical determinant of the attractiveness of VC-backed entrepreneurship for high-earning potential founders is the expected time to develop a startup’s initial product. This is because founder-CEOs’ cash compensation increases... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Executive Compensation

2017
Working Paper

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Venture Capital; Performance Improvement; Capital Markets

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