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- 2001
- Working Paper
When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity Dependent Firms
By: Malcolm Baker, Jeremy Stein and Jeffrey Wurgler
We use a simple model of corporate investment to determine when investment will be sensitive to non-fundamental movements in stock prices. The key cross-sectional prediction of the model is that stock prices will have a stronger impact on the investment of firms that... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, Jeremy Stein, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity Dependent Firms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 8750, December 2001. (First draft in 2001.)
- September 1983
- Case
Zero Stage Capital Equity Fund: Excerpts from Offering Memorandum
Keywords: Venture Capital
Stevenson, Howard H. "Zero Stage Capital Equity Fund: Excerpts from Offering Memorandum." Harvard Business School Case 384-075, September 1983.
- August 2018
- Supplement
The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Timothy J. Becker, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Private Equity Vies for $10 Billion in Cement Assets
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
What lies ahead for retail? Experts see equity funding
- 06 Jun 2024
- News
Wealthy Families Fuel $20 Billion Private Equity Buyout Wave
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
Michelle Banik, Heather Stark (MBA 1999), Penny Collenette, and Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008) When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report came out at the end of March, the news was grim. The significant economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic stretched the... View Details
When the Tailwind Stops: The Private Equity Industry in the New Interest Rate Environment
The consistent growth of long-term alternative asset managers in the past four decades coincided with the secular decline in interest rates. This has been an important tailwind for the private equity industry’s development as debt markets became increasingly... View Details
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Resources, Strategy, and Performance During Industry Replication: The Case of Emerging Markets Private Equity
Competitive dynamics in emerging markets private equity closely resemble those of nascent technology industries. This is because institutional voids undermine core components of the traditional PE business model. I am examining how resources shape strategy... View Details
- 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
Badertscher, Brad, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego. "The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-004, July 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
- October 2022 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Founders First Capital Partners: An Approach to Capital Access Equity
By: Brian Trelstad, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, Kim T. Folsom, the founder and CEO of revenue-based financing firm Founders First Capital Partners (FFCP), must decide whether to issue another loan to OnShore Technology Group, an up-and-coming software validation company. FFCP provided revenue-based... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Financial Instruments; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment Return; Revenue; Capital; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Trelstad, Brian, Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Founders First Capital Partners: An Approach to Capital Access Equity." Harvard Business School Case 323-013, October 2022. (Revised January 2025.)
- March 2014
- Module Note
The Impact of Waves in Venture Capital and Private Equity
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew. "The Impact of Waves in Venture Capital and Private Equity." Harvard Business School Module Note 814-084, March 2014.
- May 2000
- Article
Agricultural Cooperatives in Gujarat, India: Agents of Equity or Differentiation?
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Agricultural Cooperatives in Gujarat, India: Agents of Equity or Differentiation?" Development in Practice 10, no. 2 (May 2000): 178–188.
- Web
Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity
Onyeador Ivuoma Onyeador is Ray is a 2024-2025 Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS)Racial Equity Fellow. She is also an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. Her research examines how people judge and respond to... View Details
- September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Silver Lake and Private Equity in Brazil: Carnaval or Calamity?
By: Aldo Musacchio and Stephen J. Goldstein
Musacchio, Aldo, and Stephen J. Goldstein. "Silver Lake and Private Equity in Brazil: Carnaval or Calamity?" Harvard Business School Case 712-004, September 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- Article
The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans
By: Christopher S. Armstrong, Ian D. Gow and David F. Larcker
Armstrong, Christopher S., Ian D. Gow, and David F. Larcker. "The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans." Journal of Accounting Research 51, no. 5 (December 2013): 909–950.
- Article
Home Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios
By: Joshua D. Coval and Tobias J. Moskowitz
Coval, Joshua D., and Tobias J. Moskowitz. "Home Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios." Journal of Finance 54, no. 6 (December 1999). (Winner of Smith Breeden Prize. Best Paper For the best finance research paper published in the Journal of Finance presented by Smith Breeden Associates, Inc.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.