Publications

March 2014
Course Overview Note

Founders' Dilemmas

By: Noam Wasserman

June 2011
Teaching Note

Curt Schilling's Next Pitch (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman

Teaching Note for 810053. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Selection and Staffing; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Financing and Loans; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

2005
Chapter

Upside-down Venture Capitalists and the Transition Toward Pyramidal Firms

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Venture Capital; Organizational Structure

06 Dec 2009
News

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01 Jun 2011
News

A Growing Drumbeat

is just one entrepreneurship elective that has seen a jump in enrollment. When HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman initially offered Founders’ Dilemmas in 2009, 42 second-year MBAs signed up. Two years... View Details

Keywords: Contests

January 2012
Background Note

Assembling the Startup Team

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Business Startups; Management Teams

August 2011
Case

Ockham Technologies (A): Building the Team

By: Noam Wasserman

Describes the issues facing a founder-ceo regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing development work. View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology

2004
Article

Executive Compensation In Entrepreneurial Teams: The Founder Gap, Board Membership, & Pay For Milestones

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Groups and Teams; Governance

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2003
Conference Paper

Founder Power and Pay for Outcomes: Cash Compensation and the Entrepreneur

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits

March – April 2003
Article

Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Management; Entrepreneurship; Management Succession; Success

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August 2009
Teaching Note

Rubbish Boys (TN)

By: Noam T. Wasserman

Teaching Note for [808101]. View Details

Keywords: North America; Canada

June 2009
Teaching Note

Smartix: Swinging for the Fences (TN)

By: Noam T. Wasserman

Teaching Note for [808116]. View Details

February 2004 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge

By: Noam T. Wasserman

Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

advantage of the other. The case shows how each is faced to restructure as its competitive advantage erodes. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910410-PDF-ENG Playing with Fire at Sittercity (A) Noam View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Jeff Bussgang

too. Remember Stephen Covey’s seventh effective habit: ‘sharpening the saw’? By interacting with people like Bill Sahlman, Noam Wasserman and Joe Lassiter – among many other... View Details

December 2009 (Revised June 2011)
Case

Curt Schilling's Next Pitch

By: Noam T. Wasserman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Rachel Gordon

As his major-league pitching career was starting to wind down in 2006, baseball all-star Curt Schilling decided to become an entrepreneur. Looking to focus his tenacity and his passion for online role-playing games on a new challenge, he founded an online gaming... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Video Game Industry