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  • 16 May 2017
  • News

Women May Find Management Positions Less Desirable

  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

Entrepreneurs Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna R. Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Abstract This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Christina R. Wing

    Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

    • Teaching Interest

    Short Intensive Program (SIP): Agile at Scale: From OKR's and Agile to Execution Excellence

    What do you want to get out of your remaining time at HBS, your career and life-plan to make an impact, starting from Day 1 post-HBS? By developing tools to drive your personal success and strategy at HBS, in this interactive immersion, we will dive into how the... View Details
    • September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
    • Case

    Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
    Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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    • March 2016
    • Article

    The Cost of Friendship

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov and Yuhai Xuan
    We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from performance in venture capital. We find that venture capitalists who share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics
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    • February 1999 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Car Wash Partners, Inc.

    By: Paul A. Gompers
    Examines the investment decision of Cabot Brown and Bill Burgin, two venture capitalists, to finance Car Wash Partners (CWP). CWP intends to purchase automatic car washes around the country. Investment strategy and deal structuring are discussed. View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Auto Industry; Service Industry
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    • 19 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

    period, the corporate venture capitalists received 15 percent of the profits they generated, as well as a bonus based on less-tangible benefits to the corporation, which could run as high as another 5 percent of the fund's View Details
    Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
    • January 2022
    • Case

    Dating Ring

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lindsay N. Hyde
    In 2015, the co-founders of Dating Ring, an online dating startup that relied on human matchmakers to arrange dates between its members, were deciding whether to either shut down the service or instead manage Dating Ring as a "lifestyle company," ramping down growth... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Failure; Business Exit or Shutdown; Internet and the Web; Venture Capital; Service Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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    • November 2023
    • Case

    Gabon Special Economic Zone

    By: John Macomber and Wale Lawal
    Tropical rain forest covers about 80% of the West African nation of Gabon, part of the Congo Basin and the "lungs of the world." Gabon is one of the first nations to earn revenue from carbon sequestration...as long as the rain forest remains intact. There are... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Development; Forestry; Wood; Carbon Credits; Supply Chain; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Strategy; Forest Products Industry; Africa; Gabon
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    • September 2015
    • Article

    (UN)Tangled: Exploring the Coevolution of VC Firm Reputation and Status

    By: Timothy G. Pollock, Peggy M. Lee, Kyuho Jin and Kisha Lashley
    We explore the relationship between status and reputation, examining how its dynamics change over time as these two intangible assets coevolve and how reputation and status are influenced by participation in highly visible events. Using a sample of more than 400... View Details
    Keywords: Underpricing; Intangible Assets; New Firms; Status and Position; Reputation; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering
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    • July–August 2018
    • Article

    The Other Diversity Dividend

    By: Paul Gompers and Silpa Kovvali
    Researchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance—especially at large companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Decision Making; Finance; Performance Improvement; Venture Capital
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    • May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
    • Case

    AirFox (A): Embracing the Blockchain and an ICO

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Edward B. Berk and Nate Schwalb
    In summer 2017, Victor Santos, CEO of AirFox, considered whether to pivot his startup towards a new product built with blockchain—a quickly growing technology at the time. AirFox was an early stage startup that sold Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to small telecom... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Initial Coin Offering; ICO; Business Startups; Finance; Currency; Strategy; Decision Making; United States
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    • 15 Apr 2010
    • News

    European Corporate Governance Institute Fellow

    • June 2004
    • Case

    TechnoServe and the Tanzanian Specialty Coffee Industry

    In 2003, TechnoServe, a U.S.-based, international, nonprofit organization, was deciding how to structure the capital investments required for Tanzanian business groups to acquire coffee bean central pulperies. This case explores the challenges of capital budgeting and... View Details
    Keywords: Small Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Cash Flow; Emerging Markets; Financing and Loans; Capital Budgeting; Tanzania
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      Christina M. Wallace

      A self-described “human Venn diagram” Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business... View Details

      Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
      • January 1989 (Revised October 1993)
      • Background Note

      Note: Valuing a Business Acquisition Opportunity

      By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
      Describes how to value an acquisition opportunity as a capital budgeting problem. Cash flows are discounted at the cost of capital and debt is deducted to value the equity capital of the target company. A key contribution of the note is the discussion of five methods... View Details
      Keywords: Valuation; Acquisition; Opportunities
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      • January 1998 (Revised December 2001)
      • Case

      Fitzpatrick Hotel Group (A)

      By: Paul A. Gompers and Catherine M. Conneely
      Examines the issues raised in the financing of the Fitzpatrick Hotel Group, an Irish hotelier. The perspective of Paddy Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO at Fitzpatrick Group, and Niall Carroll, founder of ACT Venture Capital, are contrasted. View Details
      Keywords: Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Perspective; Accommodations Industry; Republic of Ireland
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      • 27 Mar 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: March 27, 2007

      company. They can either sell the company to a large public company, raise another round of capital from a preeminent venture capital fund, or continue to grow using existing... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 21 Mar 2022
      • Blog Post

      The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

      President of Auditory Insight, a boutique management consultancy focused exclusively on hearing healthcare. We partner with senior leaders of device and biopharma hearing healthcare companies to develop successful commercialization strategies. We also consult to View Details