Publications

Educators

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

Educators

Article

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

February 1998
Case

Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (B)

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Educators

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

March 2016
Module Note

Venture Capital and Private Equity Simulation Administrators' Guide

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank

January 1989 (Revised November 1989)
Supplement

Equity Capital for Industry and Cotag International (B)

15 Jan 2014
News

Banks Cutting Costs to Get Return on Equity

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

04 May 2023
HBS Conference

Race, Gender & Equity at Work Research Symposium

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

SSRN

2020
Working Paper

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

SSRN

29 Sep 2022
News

Study: Racism Hinders Minority VC and Private Equity Fundraising

September 2022
Article

House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda

During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that... View Details

Keywords: House Prices; Collateral Channel; Entry; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry

Article

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

2012
Working Paper

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