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  • March 2000
  • Case

Magdalena Yesil

By: Myra M. Hart and Mary Rotelli
Magdalena Yesil, investor and former entrepreneur, must decide whether to become a venture partner at US Venture Partners. This case discusses career progression, entrepreneurship, and deciding among career alternatives. Yesil's entrepreneurial experiences include... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships
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  • Career Coach

Lauren Weston

Lauren enjoys helping students navigate career paths in investment banking, venture capital/growth equity, and impact investing. In the six years prior to HBS, she worked in a number of roles across capital markets, equity research, View Details
  • February 2001 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

JetBlue Airways: Starting from Scratch

JetBlue Airways shows how an entrepreneurial venture is able to use human resource management, specifically a values-centered approach to managing people, as a source of competitive advantage. The major challenge faced by Ann Rhoades is to grow this people-centered... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Competitive Advantage; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Business Startups; Air Transportation Industry
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  • August 1992
  • Background Note

Note on the Use of Alliances

By: Robert B. Stobaugh
Describes advantages and disadvantages of alliances (including joint ventures and licensing agreements). View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances
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  • January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Return Logic, Inc. (A)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz
Follows three graduating HBS students as they build a business-to-business Internet venture and highlights the challenges they confront in structuring financing terms with venture capitalists. Requires students to carefully read a six-page term sheet to identify which... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Internet and the Web; Negotiation Deal; Entrepreneurship
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  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

offered high returns over the past decade. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15014 Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion Authors:Henry Chen, Paul Gompers, Anna... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • News

Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) To Address HBS Students on Class Day 2010

  • January 1985 (Revised February 1997)
  • Case

Lotus Development Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of the history and venture capital financing of Lotus Development. Focuses on issues related to the possible terms of investment in Lotus by a major venture capital firm. The pedagogic objectives in the case are: to explore the elements of the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; Corporate Finance; Planning; Computer Industry
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    Tom Nicholas

    Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; high technology
    • 30 Nov 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

    The COVID-19 pandemic has battered industries around the world, but one sector's prospects aren’t so bleak: venture capital. Startup backers—and private-equity managers in general—say that half of their portfolio companies haven’t been... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking
    • Career Coach

    Manuel Llano

    Manuel wants to help students explore the opportunities available to HBS students in the Investment Banking, Investment Management, and Venture Capital industries. Manuel can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the... View Details
    • April 2002
    • Case

    Ocular

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Gregor M. Andrade and Jonathan Man
    Concerns the decision of Ed Kennedy, co-founder of Ocular Networks, as he decides what financing strategy his firm should take. The venture capital and public markets for telecommunications start-ups had dried up and Kennedy must decide whether to cut costs and raise... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Decisions; Venture Capital; Cost Management; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 26 Oct 2020
    • Blog Post

    12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

    When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
    • 18 Jan 2023
    • Blog Post

    Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

    more. We caught up with Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013), an HBS career coach with over 15 years of professional experience in high tech - including big tech, startups, and venture capital—to learn more about career coaching at HBS. Among her... View Details
    • 15 Dec 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation

    Keywords: by Ruiqing Cao, Rembrand Koning, and Ramana Nanda
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?

    By: Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists'... View Details
    Keywords: Investing; Persistence; Performance Persistence; Theory Of The Firm; Venture Capital; Organizations; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation
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    • 25 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...

    Current Position: Director of Platform (RRE Ventures); formerly, Executive Director of Business Development (Eyeview) Current Location: New York, NY Tell us what you're up to these days. I recently moved into the venture world as Director... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship
    • July 2008
    • Supplement

    Orchid Partners: Case Epilogue

    By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence
    Describes the real-life outcome of the case “Orchid Partners: A Venture Capital Start-Up” (9-804-138). View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Outcome or Result; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry
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    • 02 Jun 2022
    • News

    The Pivot to Web3 Is Going to Get People Hurt

    • April 2010
    • Supplement

    Howard Roizen

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Nicole Tempest
    Howard Roizen, a venture capitalist at SOFTBANK Venture Capital and a former entrepreneur, maintains an extensive personal and professional network. He leverages this network to benefit both himself and others. The case considers the steps he's taken to build and... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Prejudice and Bias; Venture Capital; Fairness; Entrepreneurship; Gender
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