venture capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

companies are very big companies now." And, according to Butler, the time of the manager has come. "It seems like the limelight has gone a lot to the idea people and the people who find the money for the idea people," he said. "But now, when I talk... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

the context of an M&A transaction in an emerging economy and the role of private equity and venture capital in the development and the eventual consolidation of the new media advertising industry.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

outside directors with more expertise and experience. Also, busy directors are less likely to serve on multiple committees, possibly to avoid being overloaded. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51853 Cost of Experimentation and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

The venture organization must decide whether to shutter the investment or put more capital to work. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806059 OuterLink Corp.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

reduce risk, though the effectiveness depends upon the role of capital structure in volatility. To address this question, we build a statistical model of equity volatility that accounts for leverage. Our approach blends Merton’s insights... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/319032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-403 Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance Accomplice, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, is raising... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

venture capital firms, angel investors, crowd-funding, and accelerators/incubators. 3) What investors look for. Each source has a different funding process and set of criteria that you need to understand... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

January 2024
Case

Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Jim Matheson, Kyle R. Myers and Henry Tao

Fusion energy is evolving from a scientific idea to a commercial possibility, drawing large investments and regulatory discussions; how should the FIA navigate this evolution?

The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) is at the forefront of transforming fusion... View Details

Keywords: Science-Based Business; Engineering; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; United States

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September 2010
Teaching Note

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details

Keywords: Projects; For-Profit Firms; Networks; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; Kenya

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14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14

capitalize on its innovation: strengthening antitrust and intellectual property rights enforcement; improving the legal infrastructure (e.g., producing more corporate lawyers); lowering barriers to entry for foreign investment; and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22

social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is associated with their compensation level and their firm's overall performance.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

were standard for start-ups, but some were unique to hedge funds—among them choosing the right fund structure, as well as how to raise capital for the management company versus raising capital to invest.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 1990 (Revised June 1993)
Case

FMC Corp.: A Recapitalization

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

A proposed recapitalization will use new debt to pay a large dividend to some shareholders in return for a reduction of their voting power. The result will be a highly leveraged financial structure and negative owners' equity. Students can trace the effects of proposed... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Strategy; Asset Management; Financial Management; Business Conglomerates; Borrowing and Debt; Business and Shareholder Relations; Capital Structure; Equity; Private Equity; Chemical Industry

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06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2003
Conference Paper

Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction

By: John D. Macomber

Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain

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05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 811-055 In October 2010, Triangulate's founder/CEO must determine what product features to develop and what marketing programs to pursue in order to boost the odds of successfully raising another View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

invest in the original company could decide whether or not to stick with it. “Space is one of these industries where typical venture capital models struggle with the deep levels of uncertainty and the longer... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

July 2001
Technical Note

Technical Note on LBO Valuation (B): The Equity Cash Flow Method of Valuation using CAPM

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Explains the equity cash flow method of valuation as it applies to leveraged buyouts. Also explains how to implement the changing cost of equity method using the CAPM. View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Equity; Valuation

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