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- January 2014
- Article
The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings
By: William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use strong discontinuities in angel funding... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Financing and Loans; Interests; Employment; Patents; Internet and the Web; Operations; Entrepreneurship; Business Exit or Shutdown
Kerr, William R., Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar. "The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings." Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 1 (January 2014): 20–55.
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of Opus Dei. After several years... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
say. So that was just one small piece of this sort of obsession with perfection, which just happened to spill over into this oratorical competition. My sister and her friends helped me come up with a speech,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
sensible way and inform you about sort of your subconscious and what it wants to do. So there's a positive there. All things in moderation, but there's a positive there. Like a glass View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
Bruce Knecht (MBA ’86) reveals in his new book, Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish (Rodale, 2006). The author, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, details an Australian patrol boat’s 4,000-mile chase of an illegal fishing... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
introspection, and consisted of the best discussions I've had. It gave me an opportunity to reflect on my life and share my feelings in an open and supportive environment. As a result, I faced things about... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- July 1997
- Case
Ford Motor Company: Maximizing the Business Value of Web Technologies
One of the largest companies in the world decides to aggressively deploy Web technology and must manage and support the new technology. A discussion of infrastructure renewal, application development, extranets, and content management is included. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation; Information Technology; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
Austin, Robert D., and Mark J. Cotteleer. "Ford Motor Company: Maximizing the Business Value of Web Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 198-006, July 1997.
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
Summing Up Crucibles of leadership are where you find them—or they find you. And business schools rarely create them, at least according to the respondents to the October column. Perry Miles put it most succinctly when he said, "A... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA
become an expert in hiring others who know a discipline and in learning how to assimilate information they share with you so that you, in turn, can share it with others in a compelling way. That is the secret to leveraging a team. And it’s one View Details
- May 2011
- Conference Presentation
Viral Videos: The Dynamics of Online Video Advertising Campaigns
By: Anita Elberse
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Deviating from an organization’s prescribed task schedule tends to erode productivity, even among the most experienced workers, according to new research from María R. Ibáñez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. People Have an Irrational Need... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
contract.” Of course this leads to the question of whether or not this sort of thing can be contracted. Should boards specify limits on CEO... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
its two thousand employees have the means and the will to prove to the rest of the business world that doing the right thing makes for a good and profitable business.” There was meaningful work to be a part... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Strategy without Numbers
Functional analysis as set forth in the last chapter decomposes a technical system into functional components that do things to advance the system’s purpose and the goals of its designers. Functional analysis in turn can be used to construct value structure maps... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Structure Mapping; Value Capture; Information Technology; Organizations; Strategy; Value Creation
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Strategy without Numbers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-040, September 2020.
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
world-class performance in racehorses? Section F is not unique in its achievements. Who on the B-School Blades could have predicted that when Barry Allardice stopped living out of his car he would become an investment banker? How about... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
for people who are innately curious and like to find solutions to problems that are hard to solve,” she said. “We want people who are creative, collaborative, honest, transparent, and like to do things for the first time. A lot View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Mentoring Is ‘the Best Part of the Job’
Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is CEO of JPM Asset Management at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, Erdoes talks about the value View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
share research on the intersection of race and capitalism—specifically, on race and technology since we live in the age of the digital transition and race is inherently embedded in algorithms and code simply... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
marketing thing for your target audience, but nobody’s going to drive their kids around in a car with suicide doors.” Team Pan Am sought to revive the brand of the beloved but defunct airline with Worldport,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
concept of "knowing-and-not-knowing" in business histories all the time. People, both in business and in life, often find themselves in states of "rational apprehension" that do not result in "appropriate... View Details