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  • March 2017
  • Teaching Note

Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Teaching Note for HBS No. 317-079. View Details
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  • March 2016
  • Module Note

Venture Capital and Private Equity Simulation Administrators' Guide

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
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  • 20 Jun 2024

Take30 Impact Series: Diverse Alumni in Private Equity

Take 30 minutes out of your day to learn about how one alum is making an impact in their own way after HBS. We’ll touch on their experience as a student, and then “zoom” in on their career path and personal journey since graduating. On this episode, we’ll feature... View Details
  • February 2003 (Revised March 2011)
  • Background Note

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Valuation and Distribution in Private Equity

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Introduces the issues attendant to valuing privately held portfolios and distributing thinly traded stock. Although they have existed since the beginning of the formal venture capital industry, they have received increasing amounts of attention as the money invested in... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Stocks; Investment Portfolio; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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  • 10 Aug 2022
  • News

The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity

  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

With few opportunities for IPOs, a developing infrastructure, low transparency, and a limited labor market, the environment for private venture financing in Africa could be described as... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • February 2015 (Revised February 2015)
  • Module Note

Venture Capital and Private Equity Simulation Administrators' Guide

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
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  • Fast Answer

Private Equity - Screening for Portfolio Operations Roles

Using Baker Library databases, it is possible to screen for firms that currently employ people in portfolio operations or in an operations department.  Capital IQ Select Screening > Companies from the top menu bar. Under the section Investment/Advisory... View Details
  • Fall 2017
  • Article

An Empirical Analysis of Investment Return Dispersion in Emerging Markets Private Equity

By: Josh Lerner and Mark Baker
The authors use transaction-level data to compare the dispersion of private equity (PE) returns in emerging markets (EMs) to the same in developed markets (DMs). They regress within-market absolute deviation from the mean on an EM indicator and controls. They find... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Investment Return; Analysis
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  • March 1998
  • Article

Internal Financing of Multinational Subsidiaries: Debt vs. Equity

By: Bhagwan Chowdhry and Joshua D. Coval
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Global Range
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  • January 2009
  • Background Note

Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity

By: Elisabeth Koll
Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely important role in China's economy in the 21st century. Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Networks; China
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  • 28 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms’ Corporate Tax Planning

Keywords: by Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz & Sonja Olhoft Rego; Financial Services
  • December 1995 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

FOX Venture Partners: Enriching the Private Equity Investor Pool

By: Josh Lerner
FOX Venture Partners (FVP) is a proposed "Fund-of-Funds" that will enable wealthy individuals to invest in venture capital. While several leading venture capitalists are enthusiastic about the concept, FVP's general partners are finding it difficult to invest... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Funds
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  • July 2010
  • Article

Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions

By: Toby E. Stuart and Soojin Yim
In this paper, we examine the propensity for U.S. public companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies, and find... View Details
Keywords: Board Interlocks; Board Networks; Social Networks; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Public Ownership; Market Transactions; Governing and Advisory Boards; United States
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  • August 2013
  • Article

The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity

By: Michael Ewens, Charles Jones and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem between the investors and venture capitalist to show how it alters the interaction between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the... View Details
Keywords: Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Contracts; Investment; Competition; Agency Theory; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Theory; Diversification
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  • February 2018 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Timothy J. Becker, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah F. McCree
In January 2018, Caelan Langan, an associate at KSW Partners LLC (“KSW”), was asked by Katherine Scott, the partner for whom he worked, to recommend a proposed structure to acquire a prominent office building in San Francisco for their most recent fund. Caelan was... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Alternative Investment Structures; Property; Acquisition; Private Equity; Investment; Management; Taxation; Policy
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  • January 2019
  • Article

Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership

By: Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
The economics of partnerships have been of enduring interest to economists, but many issues regarding intergenerational conflicts and their impact on the continuity of these organizations remain unclear. We examine 717 private equity partnerships and show that (a) the... View Details
Keywords: Partnerships; Leveraged Buyout; Partners and Partnerships; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Leveraged Buyouts
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  • Working Paper Summaries

How do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?

Keywords: by Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane; Financial Services
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning

By: Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz and Sonja Olhoft Rego
This study investigates whether private equity (PE) firms influence the tax practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms through effective governance, financial, and operational engineering. Given... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Taxation; Ownership Stake; Value Creation
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  • Article

Capital Market-Driven Corporate Finance

By: Malcolm Baker
Much of empirical corporate finance focuses on sources of the demand for various forms of capital, not the supply. Recently, this has changed. Supply effects of equity and credit markets can arise from a combination of three ingredients: investor tastes, limited... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Limits To Arbitrage; Market Efficiency; Securities Issuance; Supply Effects; Corporate Finance; Investment; Price; Capital Markets; Equity; Financial Services Industry
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