How do venture capitalists make decisions?
When selecting investments, the organization’s management team is the key determinant for a venture capitalist’s (VCs) decision, according to new insights by Paul A. Gompers […]
Wanted: more women as investors!
According to a recent report by PitchBook, initiatives to counter male bias and to increase female-founded or co-founded companies are starting to show their success. […]
Do investor relations teams contribute to positive market effects?
Kimball L. Chapman (Washington University in St. Louis), Gregory S. Miller (University of Michigan) and Hal D. White (University of Notre Dame) ask whether investor […]
Is your investment bank having conflicts of interest?
Oya Altınkılıç (Robert H. Smith College of Business, University of Maryland), Vadim S. Balashov (Rutgers School of Business) and Robert S. Hansen (A.B. Freeman School […]
Let your portfolio companies exchange themselves!
Juanita González-Uribe (London School of Economics) studies cross-company exchanges that can help to boost profits from inventions between early-stage companies and venture capital (VC) investors. […]
Board members – too busy or not busy enough?
In corporate boardrooms, industry expertise is in high demand. So much so that the busiest directors sit on multiple boards. This is a blessing and […]
Tired of lawsuits? Hire more C-suite women
The development of new product and service lines is not without risk, especially the risk of litigation. And most major companies must commit considerable revenue […]
How do audit firms select their clients?
Stephen V. Brown (Unversity of Connecticut) and W. Robert Knechel (University of Florida) examine this question using a unique text‐based measure of similarity of clients´ […]
How good are deception detection capabilities of experienced auditors?
Jessen L. Hobson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), William J. Mayew (Duke University), Mark E. Peecher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Mohan Venkatachalam (Duke […]
Why do more and more large public firms consider and establish corporate venture capital (CVC) divisions to make equity investments in early-stage entrepreneurial ventures?
In his recent work, Song Ma from Yale School of Management investigates the full lifecycle of corporate venture capital by asking why industrial firms start […]