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      • August 15, 2014
      • Article

      Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?

      By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
      This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders... View Details
      Keywords: Family Ownership; Personal Characteristics; Family and Family Relationships; Management Practices and Processes
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      Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?" Harvard Business Review (website) (August 15, 2014).
      • July–August 2014
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      Obamacare Rules Pose Challenges for S Corp Owners

      By: Josh Baron, Steve Salley and Judith L. Walsh
      The article offers information financial impacts of tax by the U.S. Affordable Care Act (ACA) applied in January 2013 on family business shareholders and owners of S Corp. It discusses suggestions in tax planning to equalize tax burden including establishing family... View Details
      Keywords: Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Compensation and Benefits; Taxation; Government Legislation
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      Baron, Josh, Steve Salley, and Judith L. Walsh. "Obamacare Rules Pose Challenges for S Corp Owners." Family Business Magazine 25, no. 4 (July–August 2014): 18–19.
      • March 18, 2014
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      Family Businesses Must Set the Agenda (Without Micromanaging)

      By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
      This article discusses the role of owners in family businesses, using the story of Charles, who transformed his family's shipping business by taking ownership decisions. The article highlights that owners have the power to set goals, define performance metrics, hire... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Family Ownership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Goals and Objectives
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      Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Family Businesses Must Set the Agenda (Without Micromanaging)." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 18, 2014).
      • March 2014
      • Supplement

      The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012 (CW)

      By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Josh Lerner
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      Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and Josh Lerner. "The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012 (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 814-704, March 2014.
      • March 2014 (Revised September 2015)
      • Case

      ACA and the Union Bank Acquisition

      By: Josh Lerner and Nathaniel Burbank
      Okey Enelamah is the CEO of the African Capital Alliance (ACA), a private equity firm based in Nigeria. ACA has spent more than a year arranging a $500 million consortium bid to acquire and recapitalize Union Bank, Nigeria's sixth largest bank. Several weeks before the... View Details
      Keywords: Nigeria; African Capital Alliance; Africa; Bank Capital; ACA; Union Bank; Development Finance Institutions; Capital Alliance Private Equity; Private Equity; Central Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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      Lerner, Josh, and Nathaniel Burbank. "ACA and the Union Bank Acquisition." Harvard Business School Case 814-080, March 2014. (Revised September 2015.)
      • February 18, 2014
      • Article

      Keep Your Kids out of the Entitlement Trap

      By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
      This article discusses the concern among wealthy family business owners that their children may become entitled and fail to contribute to society. The fear is grounded in reality, as studies show that a significant portion of inherited wealth is squandered. The article... View Details
      Keywords: Family Ownership; Wealth; Family and Family Relationships; Personal Development and Career
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      Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Keep Your Kids out of the Entitlement Trap." Harvard Business Review (website) (February 18, 2014).
      • February 28, 2014
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      A Better Route to Tech Standards

      By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
      Technological standards are ubiquitous, whether they allow consumers to communicate seamlessly across wireless networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards—shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and... View Details
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      Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "A Better Route to Tech Standards." Science 343, no. 6174 (February 28, 2014): 972–973.
      • 2014
      • Book

      Great Power, Peace, and American Primacy: The Origins of a New International Order

      By: Josh Baron
      This book explains the period of great power peace in the last fifty years and outlines the path to perpetuating it. Drawing on the Realist tradition and challenging conventional wisdom about the causes of American primacy, Baron explores contributions to peace made by... View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; International Relations; Power and Influence; Conflict and Resolution; United States
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      Baron, Josh. Great Power, Peace, and American Primacy: The Origins of a New International Order. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
      • January 2014
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      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
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      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.
      • December 6, 2013
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      Family Businesses Shouldn't Hunt for Superstar CEOs

      By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
      This article discusses the challenges faced by family businesses when it comes to succession planning, particularly in selecting an outside CEO. It presents a case study of a third-generation family business looking for an external CEO, named "Mr. Wonderful," to manage... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Management Succession
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      Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Family Businesses Shouldn't Hunt for Superstar CEOs." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 6, 2013).
      • 2013
      • Chapter

      Discussion of "Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development" by Bruce Greenwald and Stiglitz Stiglitz

      By: Josh Lerner
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      Lerner, Josh. Discussion of "Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development" by Bruce Greenwald and Stiglitz Stiglitz. In The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology. no. 151-1, edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Justin Lin Yifu. IEA Conference Volume. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
      • Winter 2013
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      Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency

      By: Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
      The sub-prime crisis has shone a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has... View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance
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      Farhi, Emmanuel, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole. "Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency." RAND Journal of Economics 44, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 610–631.
      • October 2013
      • Case

      Bay Partners (B) (Abridged)

      By: Josh Lerner and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
      Abridged supplement for case 213102, for instructors who wish to have students review in class. View Details
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      Lerner, Josh, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Bay Partners (B) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 214-042, October 2013.
      • October 2013
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      Corporate Venturing

      By: Josh Lerner
      For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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      Lerner, Josh. "Corporate Venturing." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 86–94.
      • October 2013
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      With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

      By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
      To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit... View Details
      Keywords: Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Attitudes; Relationships; Cognition and Thinking
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      Lerner, Josh, and Ulrike Malmendier. "With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 10 (October 2013): 2411–2452. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 16918 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 11-108.)
      • September 2013
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      Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

      By: Lily H. Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
      Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to... View Details
      Keywords: Regulation; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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      Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 9 (September 2013): 2139–2173.
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

      By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
      Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      Fang, Lily, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19300, August 2013.
      • Spring 2013
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      The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

      By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
      This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when... View Details
      Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Strategy; Investment Funds
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      Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar. "The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 219–238.
      • March 27, 2013
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      Downton Abbey: Real Life Lessons for Trust & Estate Advisors

      By: Josh Baron and Devin Bird
      The article discusses how the TV series "Downton Abbey" reflects challenges and opportunities faced by business families. The show's storyline, centered around the aristocratic Crawley family and their estate, parallels real-world situations where business families... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Adaptation; Transition
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      Baron, Josh, and Devin Bird. "Downton Abbey: Real Life Lessons for Trust & Estate Advisors." Wealth Management (website) (March 27, 2013).
      • March 2013 (Revised July 2014)
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      Bay Partners (A)

      By: Josh Lerner and Lauren Barley
      In April 2010, Salil Deshpande has recently resigned from Palo Alto, California-based Bay Partners (Bay) where he had been a general partner. Although Deshpande had built a successful track record at the venture firm, he resigned with two other Bay general partners as... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Conflict Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resignation and Termination; Policy; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry; California
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      Lerner, Josh, and Lauren Barley. "Bay Partners (A)." Harvard Business School Case 213-102, March 2013. (Revised July 2014.)
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