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- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
financial industry and those who regulate it, there are strong but conflicting viewpoints about the impact of private equity buyouts of public firms, especially in the wake of the recent global financial crisis. Some critics focus on the...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management...
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- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
grow companies. Earlier this year we launched our buyout fund focused on scaling mature companies in the sector, which I now co-lead. Can you give me an example of a deal you’ve worked on recently? We’re just closing on our first deal...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
information. Syndication allows venture investors to get a valuable “second opinion” about potential additions to their portfolio. Second, it helps companies’ managements. Venture and buyout investors work closely with the managers of the...
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- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
buyout modeling tests to typical recruiter questions—was released this summer. (Penned as part of an independent study with Associate Professor Victoria Ivashina, Sheyner received HBS course credit for the book.) But now, after years...
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Dan Morrell
- 04 Feb 2014
- Blog Post
VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!
Buyouts Magazine, Dow Jones, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pitchbook News, The Deal, and Venture Capital Journal. - Alexander Kleiner & Barbara Rauber, Barbara, VCPE Conference Co-Chairs
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- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private equity critics claim that leveraged View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Daniel Sheyner
industry, "Private Equity Industry & Interview Guide"—offering everything from sample leveraged buyout modeling tests to typical recruiter questions—was released this summer. (Penned as part of an independent study with...
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- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Carlyle Japan, wants to formulate a strategy to improve his firm's ability to source high-quality deals at competitive valuations, or prices. Buyout funds like Carlyle typically have two deal phases: sourcing and monitoring. These...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a much larger, more influential part of the global economy over the past two decades. The authors—Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking; Leamon, an...
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- Forthcoming
- Article
Weak Credit Covenants
By: Victoria Ivashina and Boris Vallée
Using novel data on 1,240 credit agreements, we investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market. While negative covenants are widespread, carve-out
and deductible clauses that qualify them are as frequent. We propose simple and comprehensive...
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Leveraged Loans;
Loan Contracts;
Debt Covenants;
Carve-out;
Creditor Governance;
LBO;
Credit;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Leveraged Buyouts
Ivashina, Victoria, and Boris Vallée. "Weak Credit Covenants." Management Science (forthcoming).
- July 2001
- Case
Regal Cinemas LBO (B)
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Daniel Green
Supplements the (A) case.
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Salter, Malcolm S., and Daniel Green. "Regal Cinemas LBO (B)." Harvard Business School Case 902-020, July 2001.
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
everything from electronics and sporting goods to food and drugs. Recently, with Goodrich focusing increasingly on the aerospace industry, Price oversaw the leveraged buyout of his division and bid farewell to Goodrich last spring. Now,...
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- 1992
- Chapter
Organizational Changes and Value Creation in Leveraged Buyouts: The Case of O.M. Scott & Sons Company
By: George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck
- 1991
- Chapter
Effects of LBOs on Tax Revenues of the U.S. Treasury
By: Michael C. Jensen, Laura Stiglin and Steven N. Kaplan
Jensen, Michael C., Laura Stiglin, and Steven N. Kaplan. "Effects of LBOs on Tax Revenues of the U.S. Treasury." In The Law of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Reorganizations, edited by D. A. Oesterle. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1991. (Forthcoming in Management Revolution: The Legacy of the Market for Corporate Control, Harvard University Press.)
- December 2000
- Case
SupplierMarket.com (A)
By: William A. Sahlman and Jared Stone
Describes a decision confronting the cofounders of a B2B Internet firm that focuses on the purchasing process for manufactured direct materials. The company has raised one round of capital from two prominent venture capital firms and must decide if it makes sense to...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
position in the mergers and acquisitions business. In addition, the firm has had some notable successes in its merchant banking business, having participated in the buyouts of IMAX, Maybelline, and Collins & Aikman, in particular....
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- December 1989
- Article
Organizational Changes and Value Creation in Leveraged Buyouts: The Case of O.M. Scott & Sons Company
By: George P. Baker and Karen Wruck
Baker, George P., and Karen Wruck. "Organizational Changes and Value Creation in Leveraged Buyouts: The Case of O.M. Scott & Sons Company." Journal of Financial Economics 25 (December 1989).