Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit

Associate Professor

Soldiers Field Road

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Boston, MA 02163

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Faculty Research Fellow

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

  • Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit

  • National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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1.

The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity

AFA 2003 Washington, DC Meetings
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 Nov 2002 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2013
Michael Ewens, Charles M. Jones and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 2,548 (5,032)
Citation 111

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Venture Capital, Idiosyncratic Risk, Principal-agent problem, Private Equity

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Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence

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Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence

14th Conf. on Financial Economics & Accounting (FEA); AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings; EFA 2003 Meetings Paper No. 904; 5th Annual Texas Finance Festival
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 15 Jan 2004
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, S. Viswanathan and David T. Robinson
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Downloads 2,535 (4,967)
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Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 18 Oct 2004
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, S. Viswanathan and David T. Robinson
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

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Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?

EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Jan 2005
Raymond J. Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 1,511 (11,921)
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Corporate Governance, turnover, entrenchment, misattribution, board decisions

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Financing Risk and Innovation

Management Science (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2015
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 1,228 (16,509)
Citation 28

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Innovation, Venture Capital, Investing, Experimentation, Market Cycles, Financing Risk

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Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?

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Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?

AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Mar 2005
Andrew Ang, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Rui Zhao
BlackRock, Inc, Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and BlackRock, Inc.
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hedge fund, fund-of-funds, portfolio allocation, certainty equivalent

Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?

NBER Working Paper No. w13944
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2010
Andrew Ang, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Rui Zhao
BlackRock, Inc, Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and BlackRock, Inc.
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Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?

Journal of Investment Management, Fourth Quarter 2008
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2011
Andrew Ang, Rui Zhao and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
BlackRock, Inc, BlackRock, Inc. and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit

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Hedge funds, survivorship bias, performance evaluation, benchmarking, asset allocation

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Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

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Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 15-070, The Journal of Financial Economics (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2017
Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Innovation, Venture Capital, Investing, Abandonment Options

Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w24523
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Apr 2018
Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

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Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 12-032
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 29 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 559 (49,227)
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Venture Capital, Innovation, Market Cycles, Financing Risk

Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Mar 2012
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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venture capital, innovation, market cycles, financing risk

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Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

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Citation 78

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

Journal of Economic Perspectives (Forthcoming), Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 15-005
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Jul 2014
William Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 712 (35,618)
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entrepreneurship, experiments, innovation.

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

NBER Working Paper No. w20358
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2014
William Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm

AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings; EFA 2004 Maastricht Meetings Paper No. 5181
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 May 2004
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and David T. Robinson
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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Firm Boundaries, Mergers, Search

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Concentrating on Governance

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 17 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2010
Dalida Kadyrzhanova and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Georgia State University and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Corporate Governance, Industry Concentration, Antitakeover Provisions, Market for Corporate Control

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Insider Financing and Venture Capital Returns

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-45
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2016
Michael Ewens, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ilya A. Strebulaev
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads 475 (61,163)
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venture capital, financial intermediation, hold up, entrepreneurship

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Financial Buyers vs. Strategic Buyers

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 15 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2013
Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Jarrad Harford
London Business School - Department of Finance, Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and University of Washington
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private equity, buyout, acquisitions, moral hazard, governance, misvaluation

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Innovation Policies

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Innovation Policies

AiSM Special Issue on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Platforms, Forthcoming, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 13-038
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 11 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2017
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 405 (73,581)
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Financing Innovation, Failure Tolerance, Abandonment Options

Innovation and the Financial Guillotine

NBER Working Paper No. w19379
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 30 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2015
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Financing Auction Bids

EFA 2001 Barcelona Meetings
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Apr 2001
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of Its Partners?

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Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of Its Partners?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2014
Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Venture Capital, Performance Persistence, Theory of the Firm

Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of its Partners?

NBER Working Paper No. w19120
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2014
Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates

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Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 17-089
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2019
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Venture Capital, Syndication, Networks, Entrepreneurship

Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates

NBER Working Paper No. w24517
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Apr 2018
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 17-089, Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Apr 2017
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Venture Capital, Syndication, Networks, Entrepreneurship

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Corporate Financial Policies in Overvalued Debt Markets

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 13 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2015
Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
University of Washington, London Business School - Department of Finance and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 191 (163,627)
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Debt Misvaluation, Capital Structure, Cash Holdings, Credit Ratings, Debt Issuance, Financial Constraints, Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions, Moody's, Moral Hazard

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Price Improvement in Dealership Markets

Journal of Business, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Oct 2001
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 181 (171,801)
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Price Improvement, dealer market, microstructure, auction

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The Consequences of Information Revealed in Auctions

Columbia Business School, Economics and Finance Working Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Oct 2001
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Brett Katzman
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and University of Miami - School of Business Administration - Department of Economics
Downloads 141 (212,304)
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Information, Auction, Revenue Equivalence, Signalling, Participation, Cournot, Bertrand

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Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

NBER Working Paper No. w19378
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 Aug 2013
Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Jarrad Harford
London Business School - Department of Finance, Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and University of Washington
Downloads 35 (459,032)
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Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation

NBER Working Paper No. w21278
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2015
Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Hardina Smythe and the Healthcare Investment Conundrum

Harvard Business School Finance Case No. 811-073
Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Case No. 811-013
Posted: 18 Feb 2012
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Carin Knoop
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Iris Running Crane: December 2009

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Case No. 810-073
Posted: 16 Feb 2012
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit

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Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners

HBS Case No. 810-054, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management
Posted: 20 Oct 2009
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit

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Corporate Reorganizations and Non-Cash Auctions

Journal of Finance, Vol. 55, pp. 1807-1849, 2000
Posted: 19 May 2004
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

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Auctions, Multidimensional Auction, Financial Constraints

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Market Valuation and Merger Waves

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 22 Nov 2002
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

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Mergers, Auction Theory, Financial Auctions, Bidding with Securities, Valuation in mergers