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  • 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
  • 03 Jul 2010
  • News

Hedge-Fund Lending Draws Scrutiny

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 27 May 2015
  • News

Studies Find Angels Significantly Impact Success Of Funded Companies

  • 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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  • 28 May 2020
  • News

Early-Stage VC Is ‘Highly’ Sensitive to Downturns —Including This One

  • 30 Jun 2010
  • News

The VC Shakeout

  • 09 Feb 2010
  • News

Global Award for Entrepreneurship

  • 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
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

Reviving Entrepreneurship

New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2018
  • News

China’s new $15bn tech fund emulates SoftBank’s Vision Fund

  • 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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  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

Authors:Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract We explore the phenomenon and economics of private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 28 Jul 2011
  • News

Managers buy in to buy-outs