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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...

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Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 %...

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Venture Capital's 'Me Too' Moment

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Sweeney, Patrick - 2021

In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring...

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Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Gompers, Paul A. - 2014

. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are more likely to succeed than first time entrepreneurs and … for entrepreneurs without a successful track record. Similarly, more experienced venture capitalists are able to identify … and invest in first time entrepreneurs who are more likely to become serial entrepreneurs. Investments by venture …

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Entrepreneurial Spawning : Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986-1999

Gompers, Paul A. - 2014

trained and conditioned to be entrepreneurs by being exposed to the entrepreneurial process and by working in a network of … entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Alternatively, individuals become entrepreneurs because the large bureaucratic companies for …

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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kanyuan … - 2022

We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical...

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Venture Capitalists and Covid-19

Gompers, Paul A. - 2020

We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of VCs in early 2016 and...

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Private Equity and Covid-19

Gompers, Paul A.; Kaplan, Steven N.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - 2021

We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to maximize value, their actions...

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