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  • April 2017
  • Article

Financing Risk and Innovation

By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We provide a model of investment into new ventures that demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk―a forecast of limited future funding―by modifying... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; Innovation and Invention
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  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/IPRImit.pdf Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector Authors:Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda Publication:In America's Energy Innovation Problem Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2010
  • Compilation

VCPE Strategy Vignettes I

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope
These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, the general partners must decide whether to invest in an intriguing opportunity that lies outside the firm's carefully developed... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Projects; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Investment Portfolio; Business or Company Management; China
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  • 15 Aug 2014
  • News

Getting a handle on inversion

    Adi Sunderam

    Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry

      Laura Alfaro

      Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details

      • 26 Jan 2024
      • Blog Post

      Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective

      leaders, to build solutions that spur measurable, lasting change. Every year, HBS Interns play an important part in driving the Emerson Collective mission. Joanna Lichter, Associate Director of Venture... View Details
      Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

        Joseph B. Lassiter

        Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

        Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy

          Robin Greenwood

          Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is past faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of... View Details

          Keywords: banking; financial services

            Malcolm P. Baker

            Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

            His research is in the... View Details

            Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
            • 08 Sep 2021
            • Blog Post

            Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

            investing and determined that if he wanted to go for it, the time was now. The next question was how. Mbanusi sought council from a friend, Emma Sissman, Associate at SJF Ventures, a leading impact venture... View Details

              Dante Roscini

              Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

              • 07 Apr 2003
              • Research & Ideas

              XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

              product line within Xerox. He had the support of Xerox's chief executive officer, David Kearns, for establishing the new internal structure. This structure would work much like an internal venture capital... View Details
              Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
              • 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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              • 2020
              • Working Paper

              Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

              By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
              To explore determinants of new venture performance, the CEOs of 470 early-stage startups were surveyed regarding a broad range of factors related to their venture’s customer value proposition, product management, marketing, technology and operations, financial... View Details
              Keywords: Startups; Survey Research; Performance Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Analysis; Business Startups; Failure; Surveys
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              • November 2021 (Revised May 2022)
              • Case

              QuantumScape's Mission to Revolutionize Energy Storage for a Sustainable Future

              By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
              QuantumScape CEO Jagdeep Singh juggles the many activities required to lead the next-generation battery pioneer. Founded in 2010, QuantumScape’s mission was to develop new “solid-state” car batteries that would improve upon traditional lithium-ion batteries in key... View Details
              Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; SPACs; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Science-Based Business; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Energy Industry; California; San Jose
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                Disruption and Credit Markets

                When innovation and entry are high in an industry, is this good or bad news for incumbents? We show that recently the answer has been bad news.  Industries with elevated venture capital activity and returns, and with a larger presence of newly listed firms, show a... View Details

                  Ashley V. Whillans

                  Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of... View Details

                  • November 2008 (Revised January 2009)
                  • Case

                  Arcapita - 2002

                  In 2002, Arcapita Bank, B.S.C., then known as First Islamic Investment Bank, or FIIB, faced a liquidity crunch. Aracapita offered Islamic-compliant private equity, real estate, and venture capital products. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack, however, Islamic... View Details
                  Keywords: Business Model; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Globalized Firms and Management; National Security; Religion; Financial Services Industry
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                  • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
                  • Case

                  Vidient (A)

                  Vidient, a young company, is in the process of being spun out of a much larger, established Japanese business. Vidient is in the business of analyzing the feeds from security cameras and catches security breaches automatically, without human assistance. The parent... View Details
                  Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Service Industry; Japan
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