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  • 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 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 In 2001, however, a law requiring net assets per share to remain above 50,000 yen was repealed, clearing the way for firms to split to lower...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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/challenges.pdf Information Risk and Fair Values: An Examination of Equity Betas Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder—CEO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 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
  • 26 Feb 2013
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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
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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
  • 28 Jun 2016
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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
  • 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
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 24 Apr 2012
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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
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services
  • 13 Apr 2010
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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
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

Yael BraidHarvard Business School Case 813-101 HealthCraft's three founders are about to craft their founding agreement and split the equity among themselves. Uncertainty lingers over each member's future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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