[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: Microcredit : Understanding Venture Capital Networks

[umesh sharma]

Mighty useful info for NGOs etc interesting in funding projects far away!
   
  Umesh

HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu> wrote:
                  
  Highlights this Week    
   Research & Ideas: The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks  
   Research & Ideas: Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?  
   First Look: Skill vs. luck in entrepreneurship; Friendster case; more  
   What Do YOU Think? How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

==============================   New on the Site  Research & Ideas: The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5506.html
Venture capital firms often consider investments in companies located far away or in unfamiliar industries. How do they spot these opportunities and also reduce risk? It's the power of networks, says Harvard Business School professor Toby Stuart—and understanding how they work in VC is just now starting to be understood.

  Research & Ideas: Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5543.html
It's a fundamental tension many entrepreneurs face, the conflict between wanting to become rich and wanting to keep control of their new company. Few can have both. Professor Noam Wasserman discusses his research into the motivations of entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them.

  First Look: Cutting-Edge Faculty Research  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/firstlook/index.html
Why firms hold so much cash ... Crime and punishment in "American Dream" countries ... Customer metrics that look ahead, not back ... new Friendster case.

  What Do YOU Think? How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5570.html
Online forum OPEN until Tuesday, December 19. A new book by Gregory Clark identifies "labor quality" as the major enticement for capital flows that lead to economic prosperity. By defining labor quality in terms of discipline and attitudes toward work, this argument minimizes the long-term threat of outsourcing to developed economies, says Jim Heskett. By understanding labor quality, can we better confront anxieties about outsourcing and immigration?

  Most Popular Stories  Summing Up: What's to Be Done About Performance Reviews?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5563.html

  Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5543.html

  Jim Heskett Asks: How Important Is Quality of Labor?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5570.html

  New Challenges for Long-Term Investors  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4333.html

  Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5544.html

  Best of Faculty Q&As  New Challenges for Long-Term Investors  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4333.html
Risk-reward. Rising interest rates. Stocks or bonds. The long-term investor has lots to ponder when setting asset allocation strategy, says HBS professor Luis M. Viceira. And the answers might not come with "conventional wisdom."

  Working Paper Spotlight  Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5425.html
by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Baldwin
Pdf available for download. How does a product's design mirror the organization that develops it, and how does such a dynamic occur? To track the evolution of one design over time, this exploratory study compared software designs developed via different modes of organization-open source versus proprietary development.

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