venture capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

renewed support, Wilson pondered on what else he might do to ward off the challenges from GEICO and Progressive. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715426-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-702 BOLT: Seed View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-003 ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

continuously renew its strategy. This note identifies some patterns that distinguish companies whose renewal efforts made headway from firms whose efforts fell flat. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708503 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

required to support them. Further, government payment for sick people's health care expenses will diminish the massive venture capital investment needed for developing genomically-derived therapies. We stand... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

15 Nov 2011
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billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2009
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(B)." It is one of the failed ventures cited in those cases. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/610027/ Intel NBI: Vivonic Harvard Business School Case 610-025 Vivonic was a start-up that was part of Intel's New... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

and a fast-growing market. There was a growing need to incorporate local relevance into global products and to respond to local competitors. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53247 Merchants and the Origins of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52096 2016 Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today The Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing in America By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—The United States has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

PublicationsUncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business Authors:Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

shared savings and capitated arrangements and away from fee-for-service, they will be better positioned not only to withstand any COVID aftershocks but also to gain patients during the recession. Leemore S. Dafny (@LeemoreDafny) is the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Dec 2014
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The Cost of Friendship By: Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from performance in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven organisation had grown into one of Europe's largest biotech firms by revenues. Their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2020
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Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull

Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details

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22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

are removed. Firms are more likely to issue equity or redeem convertible debt during the restricted period, suggesting strong incentives for manipulation. Revisiting the Strategy, Structure, and Performance Paradigm: The Case of Venture... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

books. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107035 Leslie Brinkman at Versutia Capital Harvard Business School Case 407-089 Leslie Brinkman is the founder and CEO of a hedge fund, Versutia... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

venture, but the coalition was fundamentally unstable. Quadir was facing roadblocks no matter which way he turned in his quest to assemble the venture. He came to a point where the rational decision seemed to be to abandon the venture and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-121 Rebeca Minguela hopes to create an arbitrage platform, similar to Rocket Internet, that can bring start-up ideas and opportunities to Spain. However, Blink Booking, her first venture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

artist's concert tour and faces a new set of challenges regarding the launch of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way. Is a huge, expensive launch akin to that of a "tent-pole" movie the best way to capitalize on Gaga's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
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The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details