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William R. Kerr
William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill served as Unit Head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit from 2020-2023. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing...
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William A. Sahlman
William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1982), also from Harvard. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980. His research focuses on the investment and financing...
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William E. Fruhan
Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University. He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Development; Chairman of the Executive Education Advanced Management Program; Chairman of the Finance Area at the School; and as...
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William C. Kirby
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, the University's academic venture fund for China, and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai, Harvard's first...
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William C. Vrattos
Bill Vrattos is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches Investment Strategies, a course on public market investing in the elective curriculum. He also co-teaches Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems, where he mentors student groups on private equity investment presentations.Bill is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of York Capital Management, a global...
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William J. Poorvu
William Poorvu is the Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He taught and was responsible for the real estate courses there for 35 years. He was the school's first adjunct professor, its first adjunct professor with a named chair and the first non-tenured professor at Harvard University to be given Emeritus status. He also was on the faculty...
- 19 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us …)
Keywords: by William A. Sahlman
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
transactions that were favorable to the SPE but not to Enron. The furor over expensing is, if anything, a sideshow distracting us from deeper flaws in accounting standards, compensation philosophy, and professional standards in the financial services industry.—William... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again government funding of human embryonic stem-cell research, it is time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that, one needs to understand how a... View Details
- June 2009
- Supplement
F. William McNabb, Chairman, Vanguard Group, Interviewed by Professor John Quelch, April 2008
By: John A. Quelch
Professor John Quelch interviewed F. William McNabb, Chairman, Vanguard Group in April 2008 to review updates since the original case was published in 2004. View Details
- 20 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?
- 25 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Agglomeration and Innovation
Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
- 23 Sep 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
- 08 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Clusters of Entrepreneurship
- Research Summary
Entrepreneurial Finance
William A. Sahlman is examining the investment and financing decisions made at all stages in the development of entrepreneurial ventures. Related lines of inquiry concern the role of financial institutions in providing risk capital, and the role of government policy in... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
How to Write a Great Business Plan
Professor William Sahlman suggests that a great business plan is one that focuses on a series of questions. These questions relate to the four factors critical to the success of every new venture: the... View Details
Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
"Large companies look for the perfect solution [and] analyze everything to a T, as opposed to putting something in production, getting it going, and analyzing off of that." “He found a gap that was the size of the Grand Canyon." —William View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
in the career trajectories of white and minority executive suggests that companies implicitly have two distinct tournaments for access to the top jobs.— David A. Thomas Although it took Williams longer to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 06 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan
Sean Silverthorne: "How to Write a Great Business Plan" has been one of the most downloaded articles on Harvard Business Publishing since you wrote it in 1997. Why do you think you hit a nerve? Bill Sahlman: Writing a business plan is a seminal moment in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use to draw causal inferences using observational (or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of socioeconomic factors. (photo: Richard Chase) At HBS, View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
temporary moratorium that followed the spill, the case ends with discussion of possible regulatory responses. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711021-PDF-ENG The Changing Face of Angel Investing William View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2015 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Pershing Square 2.0
By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson and David Biery
In June 2015 William A. Ackman, the CEO and founder of New York hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, reflects on the success of the fund he has spent over a decade building. Since its inception in 2004, Pershing Square's assets under management had grown from $500... View Details