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The Other Diversity Dividend
Gompers, Paul A.; Kovvali, SilpaArticle HBS-R1804D-ELeadership and People ManagementResearchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance--especially at large companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a "lab rat" with fewer barriers to understanding: the venture capital industry. VC firms are fairly flat: Every investor is a decision maker, and choices have clear business cons...Starting at €8.20
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How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Gompers, Paul A.; Gornall, Will; Kaplan, Steven N; Strebulaev, IlyaArticle HBS-R2102D-EEntrepreneurshipFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and more--are constantly in the headlines, very little is known about what VCs actually do and how they create value. To pull the curtain back, Paul Gompers of Harvard Business School, Will Gornall of the UBC Sauder School of Business, Steven N. Kaplan of the Univer...Starting at €8.20