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- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-096.pdf Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners? Authors:Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract Venture capital firms' ability to repeatedly make top performing investments... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
benefits of growth increasingly will be enjoyed only by the top quintile, and mostly by the top 1 percent. The business leaders we spoke to were disturbed by the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fish stocks as well as by View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me an incredible opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 1999
- Other Unpublished Work
Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists
By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Venture Capital; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation
Baker, Malcolm, and Paul Gompers. "Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists." November 1999. (First draft in 1998.)
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Publication:Annual Review of Psychology 60 (2009): 475-499 Abstract As technology has simplified meeting basic needs, humans have cultivated increasingly psychological avenues for occupying their consumption energies, moving from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
board levels. It explores whether this tension exists both at the level of the individual entrepreneur's financial gains and at the level of the overall venture's value, and also whether entrepreneurs can avoid the tradeoff by building more View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens. "In order for people to get along, they have to respect each other's differences," says Slifka, a successful Wall Street investor who has applied his business talent to various philanthropic ventures that aim to enhance View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
the 'best game in town' for using information resources to realize strategic advantage in serving customers." The Spotlight and the Bottom Line Do multinational corporations concern themselves with improving human rights in the countries... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2015
- Chapter
Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Human Capital; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 115–152. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
guidance algorithms to help robots intelligently operate on beating hearts, the lungs, and brain. My Master of Science (MS) degree helped me develop a vernacular for technical concepts in robotics, cellular biology, human anatomy, and... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Alibaba is about to make history with the first genuine mega-IPO of a Chinese entrepreneur-founded company in the United States. The numbers are historic as well—an anticipated market capitalization of some $200 billion. It comes to the... View Details
- February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Hot Chicken Takeover
By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull
By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details
Keywords: Fair Chance Employment; Fair Chance Hiring; Open Hiring; Inclusive Hiring; Criminal Record; Homelessness; Therapeutic Employment; Corporate Culture; Managing The Future Of Work; Food; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Employees; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation Strategy; Job Offer; Job Interviews; Human Capital; Leadership; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Welfare; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio; United States
Kerr, William R., Manjari Raman, and Olivia Hull. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 819-078, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
talent for startups comes from in various countries. One of the critical factors influencing entrepreneurship in emerging markets is the availability of the right type of talent. These regions are characterized by a diverse pool of human... View Details
- April 2021 (Revised April 2021)
- Teaching Plan
Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance
By: Brian Trelstad and John Masko
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-008. In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East in the economic power... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
fair strategies in public finance? A: Tax economists generally point to a few things about current taxes that seem unwise. Probably foremost among them is the taxation of capital income, such as dividends and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School
interest in technology companies and venture capital. Over the course of three days, the students explored the Bay Area, met dozens of alumni, and visited over 50 companies across San Francisco and Silicon Valley. This list included big tech names like Facebook,... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
a quiet smile from my father, I suspect. More recently I’ve written 2 books, 10 peer-reviewed articles for scholarly journals, and more than 30 opinion pieces and essays in the fields of education and human development. Recently, I helped... View Details