National Venture Capital Association - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

introducing a different normative standard (i.e., National Regifting Day) corrected the asymmetry in beliefs about entitlement and increased regifting. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/adams flynn norton.pdf Creating a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies. We focus on managerial and organizational challenges for organizations pursuing these strategies and identify four institutional logic shifts associated with these strategic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

study sample, 557 (98%) passed the exam. Higher levels of peer interaction were associated with a higher score ( , 0.91, 95% CI 0.31-1.52) and higher likelihood of passing the exam (OR 2.58, 95% CI, 1.08-6.16). Physicians in solo practice... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

salient, and so understanding these dynamics will be helpful for researchers addressing institutional isomorphism and change. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-034.pdf PublicationsEntrepreneurship and Global View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

coders display pervasive stereotypes, associating warmth with women and competence and negativity with men. We also find that warmer participants, particularly warmer women, are under-rewarded by their groups. Equity Concerns Are Narrowly... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

creative destruction following U.S. banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. U.S. banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53548 November 14, 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths By: Luca, Michael, Deepak Malhotra, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

gain with considerable pain A crucial point to reinforce is that the vast majority of lift outs involve a team moving from one company (OldCo) to its direct competitor (NewCo). Occasionally, a firm goes out of business and teams move to other companies intact. Some... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

technological innovations that would ultimately feed back into the commercial world, as they did during the first "space race." The psychological impact of achieving such a goal would be huge, as would the political capital... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details