Publications

September 2016 (Revised April 2018)
Case

Western Technology Investment

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Nicole Keller

Based in Portola Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital and private equity firms, WTI raised funds from institutional investors and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Equity; Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; California

2023
Working Paper

Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education

By: Tahir Andrabi, Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Naureen Karachiwalla

We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the village-level, allowing... View Details

Keywords: Product Differentiation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Spending; Education; Competition

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Private companies: fast growing | Baker Library

Help Center Private companies: fast growing How can I find (or create) a list of fast-growing private companies? Create a list using Pitchbook : Go to Data > Companies. Go to Key Fields > Ownership Status.... View Details

02 Feb 2015
News

Wall Street Is Not Silicon Valley

Keywords: private equity; entrepreneurship; Wall Street; work-life balance; Finance; Finance

March 1976 (Revised November 1993)
Background Note

Diversification, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and the Cost of Equity Capital

Describes in nonmathematical terms the nature of capital asset pricing model and possible use in estimating a company's cost of equity capital. View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing

2011
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: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Equity; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Deal; Ownership Stake; Value

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May 2000
Article

Is the Abnormal Return Following Equity Issuances Anomalous?

By: A. Brav, C. Geczy and Paul Gompers

Keywords: Equity; Insurance

April 2002
Article

Perceptions of Equity and the Distribution of Income

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Keywords: Perception; Equity; Compensation and Benefits

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October 2014
Article

Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management

By: Alexander Guembel and Lucy White

In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive to upside risk, provides a... View Details

Keywords: Information; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Corporate Finance

2001
Manual

Venture Capital and Private Equity: An Instructor's Manual

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Information

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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

at home [1] 51 Women with children under 18 at home 54 Men with no children at home 54 Men with children under 18 at home Top 5 Industries Hours/Week Women Men Consulting / Professional Services 52 55 Educational Services / Academics 49 53 View Details

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

March 1980 (Revised October 1980)
Background Note

Financial Leverage, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Cost of Equity Capital

Demonstrates how the capital asset pricing model can be used to estimate the impact of financial leverage on the cost of equity capital. The levering and unlevering of betas are illustrated. Also presents a methodology for decomposing the cost of equity into its three... View Details

Keywords: Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Investment

January 2022
Background Note

The Florange Law: Encouraging Long-Termism in Equity Markets?

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Tonia Labruyere

This note provides background information on a French law (“the Florange law”) passed in 2014 that the French government said would encourage long-term shareholdings. The note describes the law, what led to it, the reactions it evoked, and similar initiatives in other... View Details

Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Activism; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Policy; Rights; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Accounting Industry; France

2009
Article

Equity Capital Markets - The Last Two Decades

By: Dante Roscini

Keywords: Capital; Markets; Business History

December 1991
Article

Intrinsic Bubbles: The Case of Stock Prices

By: Kenneth A. Froot and M. Obstfeld

Keywords: Rational Expectations; Equities; Fundamentals; Behavioral Finance; Price Bubble; Stocks; Information; Asset Pricing