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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
venture capitalists might be more comfortable in investing in truly early-stage technologies. Q: What is the role of the buyout firm in the VC investing cycle, given the activity they and restructuring firms have had in keeping ventures... View Details
- January 2013
- Case
Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Sunru Yong
An aftermarket brake component manufacturer, VC Brakes, is bought out by a global automotive parts corporation after the 2008 financial crisis. Unlike its previous parent company, the new owner attempts to change VC Brakes' autocratic management style and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Quality Management; Crisis Management; Human Resource Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality; Change Management; Leading Change; Restructuring; Management Practices and Processes; Problems and Challenges; Auto Industry
Cespedes, Frank V., and Sunru Yong. "Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-552, January 2013.
- 08 Nov 2021
- Video
HBS VC Path
- 01 May 2013
- News
How to Negotiate with VCs
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
ago," he said. Sean Dalton (HBS MBA '98), general partner at Highland Capital, said that dire predictions for VC were nothing new. Rather than worrying about the flow of capital into and out of the industry, however, he counseled a... View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
essential to the functioning of VC and the technology-based industries in which VCs often invest. And in addition to person-to-person social networks, firm-to-firm networks are vital in both contexts.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Venturing into VC
investors, and my team to learn about new companies, discuss emerging trends, and to find ways that we can add value to our portfolio companies and the broader startup ecosystem. Some highlights from this summer include, co-hosting Rosé on the Roof, an event for Boston... View Details
Mastering the VC Game
Entrepreneurs who dream of building the next Amazon, Facebook or Google have the opportunity to take advantage of one of the most powerful economic engines the world has ever known: venture capital. To do so, you need to woo, impress, and persuade venture... View Details
How to Negotiate with VCs
VC-entrepreneur partnership agreements often contain flaws that become highly damaging as the parties come up against issues of power, trust, and much more. Yet many of the flaws are systematic and predictable—and hence preventable. The author, a longtime consultant... View Details
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
The VC Shakeout
- May 2013
- Article
How to Negotiate with VCs
By: Deepak Malhotra
VC-entrepreneur partnership agreements often contain flaws that become highly damaging as the parties come up against issues of power, trust, and much more. Yet many of the flaws are systematic and predictable—and hence preventable. The author, a longtime consultant to... View Details
Malhotra, Deepak. "How to Negotiate with VCs." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 5 (May 2013): 84–90.
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
It might be hard for the ordinary business owner or consumer to imagine having "too much" money. But that's exactly where the venture capital industry finds itself: with too much money available for the number of emerging enterprises able to offer the promise... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
Kids may grow up wanting to be entrepreneurs, but “no kid dreams of growing up to be a venture capitalist,” says Jeffrey Bussgang (MBA ’95). Thankfully, Bussgang has managed to do both and write about it, too. His recent book, Mastering the View Details
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior research associate Lauren... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) is now based in Los Angeles, where... View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I had never met in person? Having... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Hardymon Receives VC Award
Felda Hardymon, the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association. A member of the HBS faculty for more than a decade, since 1981 Hardymon has also been a... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19
African-American investors across the country. After school, he plans to continue working in the VC industry, partnering with incredible founders to build leading technology platforms of the future. We caught up with Brian to learn about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
The Under-30 Nerds of VC
- 03 May 2010
- News