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- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Nantucket Nectars, TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-898-171). View Details
- December 2001
- Teaching Note
HIMSCORP, Inc., TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-899-021). View Details
Keywords: Information Industry
- 2000
- Chapter
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success: Organizational Structure, Incentives, and Complementarities
By: Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
Keywords: Venture Capital; Success; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives; Business Ventures
Gompers, Paul, and Josh Lerner. "The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success: Organizational Structure, Incentives, and Complementarities." Chap. 1 in Concentrated Corporate Ownership, edited by Randall Morck, 17–50. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- January 2017 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Sales Razor Technologies
By: Paul Gompers and Noam Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry
Gompers, Paul, and Noam Wasserman. "Sales Razor Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 217-040, January 2017. (Revised September 2017.)
- November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place
By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as... View Details
Keywords: Business Ethics; Homelessness; Business And Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Urban Development; Society; Information Technology; Ethics; Technology Industry; Seattle; United States; North America
Healy, Paul M., Debora L. Spar, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place." Harvard Business School Case 122-017, November 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
Genset Initial Public Offering (A) & (B) TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-297-096) and (9-297-097). View Details
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
efficient market services: August 1993 Series TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-298-009), (9-298-010), and (9-298-011). View Details
Keywords: Service Industry
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
Cambridge Technology Partners - 1991 Start Up TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-298-044). View Details
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
Cambridge Technology Partners: Corporate Venturing (August 1996) TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-297-033). View Details
- January 1999
- Case
Prague Post, The
By: Paul A. Gompers
Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is under pressure from competition and a Czech Republic recession. She must decide how to return the paper to... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Competition; Financial Crisis; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry; Czech Republic
Gompers, Paul A. "Prague Post, The ." Harvard Business School Case 299-033, January 1999.
- April 1999 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
By: Paul A. Gompers
Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students get experience using traditional discounted cash flow valuation and a real options... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones." Harvard Business School Case 299-004, April 1999. (Revised September 2001.)
- June 1997
- Case
Global Digital Utilities Corporation
By: Paul A. Gompers
Keywords: Technology Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "Global Digital Utilities Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 297-065, June 1997.
- June 1997 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
Tutor Time (A)
By: Paul A. Gompers
Gompers, Paul A. "Tutor Time (A)." Harvard Business School Case 297-064, June 1997. (Revised November 1998.)
- August 2012 (Revised July 2015)
- Background Note
A Note on Valuation in Private Equity
By: Paul A. Gompers
This note will provide an overview of valuation methodologies in private equity. View Details
Gompers, Paul A. "A Note on Valuation in Private Equity." Harvard Business School Background Note 213-034, August 2012. (Revised July 2015.)
- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Carlton Polish Co. TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-283-008). View Details
- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Record Masters, TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-899-020). View Details
Keywords: Information Industry