Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Maybe that's just the way it is.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Maybe that's just the way it is.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Consider these datapoints: American Express OPEN''s latest Growing Under the Radar report details just how strong these businesses have been over the past decade. The same report indicates that health care, social assistance, and education are industries in which the growth of women''s ownership has been the strongest.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Benchmarking Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In recent years, though, latecomers to the concept of microcredit, from Wall Street and other financial hotspots, have expanded (and deformed) Yunus's ideas beyond recognition, to the point where it has now become fashionable to denounce microlending as an abuse of the poor, and to rally borrowers to default on their loans.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. Other Silicon Valley companies, like Google, have profited in a similarly immense fashion: Google's algorithm was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. Value: “ Across all of our businesses, our success is based on a simple formula,” Icahn (or someone in his employ) wrote in the most recent annual report of Icahn Enterprises. “[W]e

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8