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Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity

Our Own Harvest Interviews with organizational scholars and practitioners offer insight on the state of diversity in tech and how we can advance equity and inclusion in the sector. Community Conversations Intimate virtual events for the... View Details

March 2025
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Do Public Financial Statements Influence Private Equity and Venture Capital Financing?

By: Brian K. Baik, Natalie Berfeld and Rodrigo S. Verdi

We study whether private firm public financial statements influence the probability of raising venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) financing. In particular, we propose that private firms’ public financial statements can help the VC/PE search process by... View Details

Keywords: Business Economics; Search Costs; Accounting; Venture Capital; Governance; Private Equity; Financial Statements

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March 2018
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Hatch Startup Equity Valuation exercise for Instructor Use

By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh

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2016
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Should Governments Demand Equity in Foreign-Owned Extractive Projects?

By: Louis T. Wells

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November 2007
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Asset Fire Sales (and Purchases) in Equity Markets

By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford

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19 May 2020
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U.S. Equity Markets Stubbornly Ignore the Doom Everywhere

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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

2020
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How Do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?

By: Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane

We study how investment fees vary within private-capital funds. Net-of-fee return clustering suggests that most funds have two tiers of fees, and we decompose differences across tiers into both management and performance-based fees. Managers of venture capital funds... View Details

Keywords: Pension Funds; Fee Dispersion; Search And Negotiation Frictions; Private Equity; Investment Funds

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09 Sep 2013
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The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner

29 Sep 2022
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Study: Racism Hinders Minority VC and Private Equity Fundraising

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Do Equity Financing Cycles Matter?: Evidence from Biotechnology Alliances

By: Josh Lerner, Hilary Shane and Alexander Tsai

Keywords: Equity; Financing and Loans; Science; Alliances; Biotechnology Industry

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2012
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The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman

This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Equity

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January 2019
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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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01 Jun 2011
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The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman

February 2003 (Revised March 2011)
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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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Inflation and Taxes in a Growing Economy with Debt and Equity

By: M. Feldstein, Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski

Our tax system was designed for an economy with little or no inflation. The current paper shows that inflation causes capricious changes in the effective rate of tax on capital income and therefore in the real net rate of return that savers receive. This is not only a... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Inflation and Deflation; Economy

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28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

envision what they can do to make a difference in the world.” A recording of the case discussion is available here. Connecticut, NY Alumni Look Inside Pivotal Ventures and Gender Equity with Applegate More than 50 alumni and guests... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley