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- 11 Nov 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
“playbook” highlighting ways in which business partnerships can help educators lay the policy foundations for innovation, expand programs that boost student outcomes, and reinvigorate the entire education ecosystem to strengthen View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Amid Attacks on Private Equity, Efforts to Study Its Value
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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
presented, including leveraged recapitalizations, strategic and financial sales of portfolio companies, initial public offerings, and secondary transactions. Module 5: Private Equity Firm Strategic and...
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Public companies: comparative financial ratios
Where do I find comparative financial ratios of public companies in an industry? In Capital IQ: For broad industry sectors (energy, materials, consumer discretionary, consumer stables, healthcare, financial, information technology,...
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Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022
By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang
The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when...
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Keywords:
Corporate Law;
Securities Regulation;
Sarbanes-Oxley Act;
Concentration Levels;
Antitrust;
Initial Public Offering;
Public Ownership;
Private Equity;
Venture Capital;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Monopoly;
United States
Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting (forthcoming).
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
and desires of the students and families. And as we mentioned earlier, districts are accountable to a multiplicity of public and private stakeholders, who often have conflicting interests, significant power,...
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- 30 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors
- 10 Oct 2016
- News
Why Lincoln Hid His Strongest Feelings from the Public
- 05 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025)
problems demand public-private cooperation. We’ll only achieve our climate goals if private firms develop innovative technologies and public regulators keep a tight lid on emissions. Similarly, policymakers...
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- January 2022
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Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting
By: Erik Stafford
The contributions of asset selection and incremental leverage to buyout investment performance are more important than typically assumed or estimated to be. Buyout funds select small firms with distinct value characteristics. Public equities with these characteristics...
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Stafford, Erik. "Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 1 (January 2022): 299–342.
- 28 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms’ Corporate Tax Planning
- 2016
- Working Paper
College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts
By: Gareth Olds
A growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship rates in the United States over...
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Olds, Gareth. "College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-145, June 2016.
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
practice of providing detailed information about the company's "quarterly standings, stock prices, new acquisitions, etc.," concludes that "anyone who has stock or investments in a public company should be privileged to...
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Conflict Between the Political and Private Sectors
By: Michael Jensen and William H. Meckling
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has...
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- 11 Feb 2015
- News
Dedicated to a public service mission
Western Pacific deployments during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, then joined the private sector at Caustic Soda and, more recently, Dow Solar. Outside the office, he has actively volunteered at his local church and a...
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- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
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IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Partnerships;
Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Change;
Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept." Harvard Business School Case 314-049, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)