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    EntrepreneurshipRemove Entrepreneurship →

    New research from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including entrepreneurship, new business ventures, and startup financing.
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    • 27 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

    by Rachel Layne

    To a cash-strapped founder, any funding seems like a win, but research by Rory McDonald and colleagues shows that much more is at stake when it comes to venture capital. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 30 Mar 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New US Ventures

    by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

    The impact of immigration has been particularly sharp in entrepreneurship, yet there is remarkably little evidence about how immigration in the workplace connects to the creation and scaling of new firms. The economic consequences of greater workplace and entrepreneurial diversity deserve closer attention.

    • 15 Dec 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation

    by Ruiqing Cao, Rembrand Koning, and Ramana Nanda

    New ventures catering to female customers should be aware that the underrepresentation of women among early users on digital platforms can reduce the venture’s growth and chances of survival. As a result of gaining fewer early users, these ventures reduce future product development and are less likely to raise VC funding.

    • 20 Oct 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups

    by Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Richard Townsend, and Ting Xu

    The COVID-19 crisis makes it more difficult for small, young firms to attract talent as higher-quality candidates turn to more mature firms. Such “flight to safety” leads to a deterioration in the quality of human capital available for startups.

    • 13 Oct 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

    by Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend, and Yulia Zhestkova

    This study of foreign corporate investment transactions from 32 countries between 1976 and 2015 finds these investments pose a trade-off: While they support young firms in pursuing innovations they could not otherwise afford, they also generate knowledge for the foreign investors.

    • 22 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

    by Sean Silverthorne

    Research by Maria Roche looks at how past economic downturns forced job-insecure, high-tech entrepreneurs to rush their ventures to market. Will COVID-19 do the same? Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 29 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

    by Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad

    Case studies about The Conservation Fund and Sonen Capital highlight three broad lessons about fresh approaches to the ownership and management of forestland.

    • 27 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital-Backed Startups

    by Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda, and Christopher Stanton

    Resolving uncertainty related to market demand—so called “product-market” fit—marks a key inflection point in the compensation contract for CEOs of venture-capital backed firms.

    • 19 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship

    by Nataliya Langburd Wright, Frank Nagle, and Shane Greenstein

    Does more activity in open source software development lead to increased entrepreneurial activity and, if so, how much, and in what direction? This study measures how participation on the GitHub open source platform affects the founding of new ventures globally.

    • 16 Jun 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Government Incentives for Entrepreneurship

    by Josh Lerner

    Even though many public policy efforts on entrepreneurship are well intentioned, the success rate has been disappointing. This essay explores these policies, focusing on financial incentives to entrepreneurs and the intermediaries who fund them.

    • 07 Jun 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation

    by Sabrina T. Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda, and Richard Townsend

    Common wisdom holds that VC investment and VC-backed startups are relatively insulated from downturns. This study shows that the relative quantity and quality of innovation declines more for VC-backed firms than for other types of firms during downturns.

    • 05 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

    by Sean Silverthorne

    3Questions A startup fund's ability to attract a major first investor is a signal to others that the investment pool is just fine for entering. Shawn Cole and Rob Zochowski answer questions about anchor investors. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 02 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

    by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones

    Cloud kitchens are restaurants built around food delivery rather than sit-down service, and they are increasing in popularity as COVID-19 disrupts the industry, write Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 11 May 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field

    by Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth

    Based on a field experiment involving 1,345 microentrepreneurs in India, this study provides insight into the depth and breadth of social knowledge contained in rural and peri-urban social networks. Harnessing community information directly from a microentrepreneur’s peers helps to identify high-growth microentrepreneurs and predict their returns to capital.

    • 29 Apr 2020
    • Book

    The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

    by Dina Gerdeman

    When institutions let us down, look for leadership outside of hierarchies, says Rosabeth Moss Kanter. These leaders "don’t wait to be asked; they just get moving." Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 18 Apr 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence From a Survey

    by Alexander Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton

    This survey of 5,819 small businesses in the United States shows that the pandemic has already caused massive dislocation among small businesses. Many businesses think they will not be able to survive if the crisis persists for the coming months. The immediacy of new funding will likely impact medium-term outcomes.

    • 14 Apr 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps

    by Ernest Liu and Benjamin N. Roth

    Microfinance has failed to catalyze entrepreneurship in developing countries, despite abundant evidence of high return on investment opportunities. What can account for this? This study presents a theory in which firms that borrow from an informal lender may see their growth stalled and remain in the relationship indefinitely, even though they would have continued to grow in the absence of a lender.

    • 20 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

    by Danielle Kost

    COVID-19 will put many small businesses on life support. Karen G. Mills, who has been advising policymakers on aid options, offers guidance to owners on the brink of ruin. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 09 Mar 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship

    by Benjamin N. Roth

    The author provides a formal definition of organizational sustainability and characterizes the situations in which a social enterprise should be sustainable. The analysis then delineates when an investment in a social enterprise delivers superior impact to a grant.

    • 18 Feb 2020
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Global Ocean Trust: Protecting the Blue Planet in New Ways

    Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter

    Following a successful career in finance, Torsten Thiele has devoted himself to the challenging cause of ocean conservation and stewardship. Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Thiele discuss strategy for solving one of the world's biggest problems. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

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