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  • 13 Feb 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Diversity in Innovation

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang; Financial Services; Education
  • 02 Jun 2017
  • News

Venture capital’s gender gap is costly for firms and the economy

  • 25 Jan 2017
  • News

Everybody's in a Bubble, and That's a Problem

  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

Gompers, Paul A., and Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—With an overall lack of gender and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Venture Capital; Performance Improvement; Capital Markets
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  • October 2021
  • Article

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Calder-Wang
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Diversity; Gender; Performance Improvement; Capital Markets
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  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

identify characteristics of stocks that an investor who is worried about bad times should buy— a “rainy day” portfolio. Diversity in Innovation Paul A. Gompers View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

Gompers and research assistant Sophie Wang developed a novel way to determine exactly how much gender diversity influenced performance. Examining... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • Web

Business Economics - Doctoral

Matthew C. Weinzierl Dennis A. Yao Yuan Zou Current HBS Faculty & Students by Interest Asset pricing Lauren H. Cohen Robin Greenwood Samuel G. Hanson Ishita Sen Adi Sunderam Behavioral finance Malcolm P.... View Details
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Diversity in Innovation

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang
In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation

By: Paul A. Gompers, Kevin Huang and Sophie Q. Wang
We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Diversity; Familiarity; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Performance
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Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

Hire Talent Connect with Clubs Hire Talent Connect with Clubs Partner with a HBS Student Club Reach targeted groups of students by connecting with over 50 career-related student clubs. Work with club leaders to sponsor events, advertise... View Details
  • Web

Strategy - Faculty & Research

Thomas R. Eisenmann Benjamin C. Esty Kris Johnson Ferreira Trevor Fetter Joseph B. Fuller Shikhar Ghosh Amit Goldenberg Paul A. Gompers Jerry R. Green Boris Groysberg Richard... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Venture Capital's 'Me Too' Moment

By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Paul A. Gompers and Patrick Sweeney
In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we... View Details
Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Founders; Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Lawsuits and Litigation
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  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

We Rise

capital. For more than a quarter-century, the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul View Details
Keywords: April White; Finance