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Join Our Mailing List Join Our Mailing List Join Our Mailing List *First Name: *Last Name: *Affiliation: *Email: Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

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Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship - Race, Gender & Equity

Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship is a three-part digital project that aims to stir visionary thinking and illuminate key ideas on how to create meaningful change within the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Host Maggie Sanchez... View Details

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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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

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

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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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Venture Capital and Private Equity Course Number 1428 Senior Lecturer Jo Tango Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Overview Note: this course is not for students with prior full-time VCPE... View Details

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

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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

July 2010
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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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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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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

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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