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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

occurs when an algorithm produces results that are systemically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process. ( + ) Code Switch The ability and propensity to adapt across shifting sociocultural contexts. Data View Details

28 Aug 2009
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The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms’ Corporate Tax Planning

Keywords: by Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz & Sonja Olhoft Rego; Financial Services

21 Sep 2021
Cold Call Podcast

Why JPMorgan Chase Is Committed to Improving Racial Equity in Banking

Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower; Financial Services; Banking

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Private Equity and Portfolio Companies: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis

By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Filippo Mezzanotti

March 2013
Teaching Note

Silver Lake and Private Equity in Brazil: Carnaval or Calamity? (TN)

By: Aldo Musacchio

05 Jan 2012
News

HBS's Noam Wasserman on Cofounders, Equity Splits, and Reality Distortion Fields

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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity

Leading Race Work in Business Schools Leading Race Work in Business Schools 07 FEB 2020 Summary Speakers Speakers Robin Ely Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender... View Details

March 2014
Module Note

The Venture Capital and Private Equity Investing Simulation: The Concepts

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank

September 2011
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Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas

By: Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim

Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in financial instrument fair values leads to higher cost of capital. We... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Assets; Cost of Capital; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Corporate Disclosure; Information; Risk and Uncertainty; Value; United States

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March 1982
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The Effect of Discretionary Price Control Decisions on Equity Values

By: R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Price; Decision Making; Value; Finance

Fall 2021
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When to Go and How to Go? Founder and Leader Transitions in Private Equity Firms

By: Josh Lerner and Diana Noble

Leadership transition in private equity firms is an understudied field, despite the important, albeit controversial, role such firms play in developed economies. We analyzed 260 firms in an empirical study, supplemented by qualitative interviews with a small sample of... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Transition; Private Equity; Leadership; Management Succession; Analysis

September 2020
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Summit Partners: Independent Vetcare

By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu

This case follows Summit Partners, a leading growth equity firm, as it evaluates an investment opportunity in IVC, a veterinary care group in the U.K. market. The case allows students to articulate and evaluate the investment thesis of this transaction. Additionally,... View Details

Keywords: Growth Equity; Investment Evaluation; Private Equity; Investment; Decision Making; Valuation

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