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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a new business for Xerox out of... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
specializes in serving the financial needs of its venture-capital and start-up clients. “They weren’t sure what to do with their lives.” Four years later, venture capital is, at least, out of the rough. “We see a set of improving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
mission to develop great general managers by capitalizing on the case method. In recent years, the School has added myriad initiatives that appear to celebrate complexity rather than strategic simplicity. Please draw these initiatives... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
passion in their students. Our faculty members stay close to practice, interacting in the field with leaders and managers who are confronting the day’s most pressing business challenges. They apply knowledge gained in the field to... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Sneakers Game “Our goal is to be the kind of start-up that would terrify Nike—if Nike didn’t already own us.” Ron Faris, general manager of S23NYC, a Manhattan-based digital studio owned by sports apparel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
business. These essential insights for enduring and optimizing the middle miles will outfit managers to find their way through the messy middle of any bold project or new venture. Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Business by Leonard C. Green (OPM 18, 1992) (AMACOM) “Big new ideas rarely make great businesses.” “Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time.” “You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.”... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. Financing pressures. Bad diet. Family—what family? And now new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman reveals another... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs have an incredible backstop of management experience and wisdom available to them that, too often, they ignore. Why don’t startup founders make more use of their investors? Many entrepreneurs are hesitant to ask advice from... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
breakthrough it needs. The team's leader, Stanley Carmine, who has managed to get a few weeks' extension from management, needs to figure out how best to manage Grady under the looming deadline. He studies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
accreditation. Also, the use of the LEED standard increased among private builders in the same local markets. "Our paper describes several different ways in which these policies might stimulate private markets for greener building," says Toffel, an associate professor... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in the Nonprofit and Public View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Quaxar.com, an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm based in Miami, took a different approach to the matter of start-up capital. Leonel Azuela (MBA 2000), managing partner of Quaxar, explains that "we... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Colorado and California. For example, last January, Fermata Energy announced the results of a demonstration project in which climate-tech start-up Electric Frog Company provided an all-electric Nissan LEAF to... View Details