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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
participate in the equity markets unless they had a lot of money. In 2001, however, a law requiring net assets per share to remain above 50,000 yen was repealed, clearing the way for firms to split to lower... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
behavior by entrepreneurs? Noam Wasserman: Splitting equity with your cofounders is a prime example. My data, drawn mostly from high-tech and life-science startups, show that 73 percent of teams decide on... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
versus non-founder vesting terms and in other factors that cause vesting differences. Second is my "Splitting the Pie" project. One of the biggest factors driving founders' equity stakes is the initial View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807032 A Note on the Legal and Tax Implications of Founders' Equity Splits Harvard Business School Note 809-110 This note... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
thing I could do? How are we going to split up the roles? Which one of us will become the CEO? How are we going to split the equity among us? "Each fork in the road brings... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
activity, but a gap remains for seed-stage financing. The founders are evaluating the best way to structure their private equity fund to reflect their own assets and abilities and the needs and resources of the entrepreneurial scene in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
of an index, regardless of its performance.” This is not the only way shareholders are reengaging with management to take more corporate control. Private equity investing allows investors to take a problematic public company private, fix... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612084-PDF-ENG Negotiating Equity Splits at UpDown Noam Wasserman and Deepak MalhotraHarvard Business School HBSP Online Case Product 812-701 An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
horizon, implying that growth is less risky than value at long horizons. Investors with access to bills and bonds exhibit similar behavior when value and growth tilts are computed relative to the total equity allocation of the portfolio.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
and private venture funds. Corporate efforts lack the partnership-based organizational structure that many have identified as critical to the success of private equity funds. On the other hand, corporations are able to exploit... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
industries may split apart. Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Periodical:Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 2, Psychology Press,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
(examining equity splits within the founding team) and "Golden Handcuffs" (examining the role of vesting terms). In the control realm, my 2003 paper in Organization Science on founder-CEO... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
wide range of issues—from corporate governance and executive pay, to strategic direction and excessive corporate overhead. Yet one of the most common concerned the scope of the corporation. In many cases, activists demanded the splitting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
and return unused capital to his investors. With the passing of each venture, he has learned about forming founding teams, splitting equity with his co-founders, hiring executives to work for him, and when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
accounting performance. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011 August 2013 Journal of Financial Intermediation Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne