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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Medical Device Industry

By: Cirrus Foroughi and Ariel Dora Stern
Does the large-scale technological change that is characteristic of an industry-wide digital transformation entrench industry leaders or enable the rise of new entrants? We offer a novel approach to this question by studying the medical device industry, a unique... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Medical Devices; Digitization; Medical Technology; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Growth; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • December 2006 (Revised August 2008)
  • Case

Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc.

By: Robert F. Higgins and Virginia Fuller
In May 2005, Steve Bollinger was about to become president and chief operating officer of Pervasis Therapeutics, a small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Health Industry; Cambridge
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    Lynda M. Applegate

    Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

      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

      • 25 Sep 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: September 25, 2007

      venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Lightspeed Venture Partners believed that India had tremendous potential for venture View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 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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      • 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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        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
        • 15 Apr 2010
        • News

        European Corporate Governance Institute Fellow

        • 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
        • September 1997 (Revised October 2001)
        • Case

        efficient market services: August 1993 (A)

        By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey A. Farrell
        Penny Baron, vice president of efficient market services, must decide how to finance rapid expansion for a young market research company. Venture leasing is a possibility and terms are explored. View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Growth Management; Research; Marketing; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Management Teams; Leasing; Service Industry; United States
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        • 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
        • 07 May 2025
        • Video

        Climate Rising: Advancing the Circular Economy with Lauren Rodriguez of Closed Loop Partners

        • 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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        • 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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        • 16 May 2017
        • News

        Women May Find Management Positions Less Desirable

        • 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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        • 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
        • 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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        • 2014
        • Working Paper

        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; Decision Making; Identity
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