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  • 02 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Teaching Interest

Venture Capital and Private Equity (MBA)

By: Josh Lerner

The growth of private equity internationally has been dramatic, to the point that the asset class has been both lauded as the savior and vilified as the cause of our current economic malaise. Over the past two decades, private equity- ranging from venture capital to... View Details

  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
  • May 2009 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

Verne Global: Building a Green Data Center in Iceland

Verne Global, a pioneering startup created to build the first large-scale data center in Iceland, faces critical challenges regarding its green strategy. Verne Co-Founder Isaac Kato is tasked with evaluating how the company can most successfully market and sell the... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Startups; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Sales; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Iceland
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    How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy

    As the world globalizes, countries compete for the markets, technologies, and skills needed to raise their standards of living. These strategies can make--or break--the government's efforts to drive and sustain growth. In How Countries Compete, Richard... View Details
    • 03 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

    moderately diverse environments (within 20 meters)—a composite measure based on variables like product market—that share what they know while also participating in coworking social events can help each other gain traction. The study... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 20 Jan 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: January 20

      Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken, and F. Gino Abstract—Children who are... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    International business and political risk in West Africa

    This project, based on confidential corporate archives, explores the response of foreign companies to political decolonization and the threat of expropriation in Ghana and Nigeria. Foreign companies in Ghana and Nigeria, especially those from Britain, had a... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Contract Rights and Risk Aversion: Foreign Banks and the Mexican Economy, 1997-2004

    In 1997 Mexicos banking laws were reformed, allowing foreign banks, for the first time since the nineteenth century, to purchase controlling interests in the countrys largest banks. Foreign banks controlled 16 percent of Mexican bank assets in March 1997. By June... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Managing Innovation in the Emerging Industrial Research System

    The second track of Chesbrough's research looks at issues of how firms manage technology in an environment where research capability is increasingly distributed across the globe. Chesbrough sees the research system in the United States undergoing significant change,... View Details
    • September 2022
    • Article

    Tone at the Bottom: Measuring Corporate Misconduct Risk from the Text of Employee Reviews

    By: Dennis W. Campbell and Ruidi Shang
    This paper examines whether information extracted via text-based statistical methods applied to employee reviews left on the website Glassdoor.com can be used to develop indicators of corporate misconduct risk. We argue that inside information on the incidence of... View Details
    Keywords: Management Accounting; Management Control; Corporate Culture; Corporate Misconduct; Risk Measurement; Organizational Culture; Crime and Corruption; Risk and Uncertainty; Measurement and Metrics
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    • Spring 2014
    • Article

    Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
    In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the "dynamic trajectories" framework to study the evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Change; India
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    • November 2013 (Revised January 2015)
    • Case

    Restructuring JAL

    By: Malcolm Baker, Adi Sunderam, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
    Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the investment committee of the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation, must decide whether to push JAL group, Japan's largest airline, into bankruptcy or to act as a sponsor in an out-of-court restructuring. The... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Costs Of Financial Distress; Cost vs Benefits; Air Transportation; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan; United States
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    • 05 Mar 2020
    • News

    The Life And Legacy Of Jack Welch

      Proximate (Co-)Working: Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions

      We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-start-up knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology coworking hubs in the United States. Relying on the exogenous assignment of office space to the hub’s 251 start-ups, we find that proximity... View Details

      • 23 Nov 2021
      • Book

      What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

      difficult. Success may validate the rightness of the culture—until it doesn’t. But that success is relatively short for organizations on track A in a competitive environment that is changing faster and faster, much too fast for any change... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • 31 Jan 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

      risk-takers, able to live by a “fail fast” and “learn fast” approach. Leaders still want this, and to get it they need to create an environment that makes room for uncertainty, experimentation, and well-intentioned failure. They... View Details
      Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
      • 14 Jun 2023
      • Op-Ed

      Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

      We’ve long known that organizations require so-called flexible leaders to respond to rapid market fluctuations; the last couple of years have only emphasized that necessity. The environment we operate in—shaped by the pandemic, social... View Details
      Keywords: by Hise Gibson
      • 07 Mar 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

      failures. VCs rarely consider their role in establishing unrealistic expectations or an environment where the ends are more important than the means, he says. "In any natural system, failure is the engine that causes growth, that... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 31 Jul 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

      Keywords: by Eric D. Werker