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- 2011
- Working Paper
Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts
By: Bo Becker and Per Stromberg
We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state.... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Laws and Statutes; Conflict and Resolution; Welfare or Wellbeing; Delaware
Becker, Bo, and Per Stromberg. "Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-070, February 2010. (Revised June 2011, November 2011.)
- April 2011
- Article
Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation
By: Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen and Per Stromberg
A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term profit motives and sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Morten Sorensen, and Per Stromberg. "Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation." Journal of Finance 66, no. 2 (April 2011): 445–477.
- April 2017
- Article
Private Equity and Industry Performance
By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen and Per Stromberg
The growth of the private equity industry has spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have... View Details
Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Stromberg. "Private Equity and Industry Performance." Management Science 63, no. 4 (April 2017): 1198–1213.
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- News
Panera CEO Takes the Food Stamps Challenge
Ron Shaich, the CEO and founder of Panera Bread lived on a food and beverage budget of $4.50 per day for a week. That figure is about the same amount someone receiving food assistance would get per day. He... View Details
Benjamin F. Fairless
Fairless oversaw the world’s largest iron and steel producer with total assets over $2 billion. In 1947 alone, Fairless spent $20 million per month for additions and improvements as part of a $500 million expansion initiative designed for... View Details
Keywords: Metals
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VCPE Database Comparison | Baker Library
with others. VERY generous with downloading (no cap overall - only per search at 10K). Nice Idea Generation screen area to show use cases of Cap IQ. However, interface is not intuitive Access Current Harvard affiliates Current Harvard... View Details
James S. Bell
Bell created the brand name Gold Medal for his company's flour. During the 1890s, Bell created selling and buying networks as part of a vigorous program of vertical integration. Bell also increased the company's production from 8,000 barrels View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
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Your Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
hours per week Compensation (weekly) Compensation The expectation is that organizations will pay $650-$1,000 per week. In addition to this salary commitment from organizations, students may apply for... View Details
Henry Ford
cars per day. Ford was the first auto manufacturer to focus on a single model with a standardized chassis made of interchangeable parts. Ford became a national celebrity when, in 1914, he announced a basic wage of $5 View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
quality Red Naomi roses per year. Franco Muzzio, Blake Li, & Sonal Chaudhry, excited to see the roses! Image source: The authors. Our day started in Rotterdam, the base camp for all our visits in the Netherlands during the IFC’s... View Details
William F. Laporte
Laporte grew revenues, earnings, earnings per share and dividends every year of his CEO tenure with return on equity averaging 30% from 1971 to 1981. Laporte built American Home Products through debt-free strategic acquisitions and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Seth E. Thomas, Jr.
Having joined the company immediately after college, Thomas was responsible for the largest wave of expansion in the history of his great-grandfather’s firm. In addition to introducing a line of electric clocks in 1927, Thomas also raised production of its traditional... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
William T. Kerr
Kerr expanded Meredith Corporation by focusing on its core business and directly managing its financial performance. Over the last few years, the company compounded its earnings per share at 33% per year and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
a decade and was only active in about 30 cities. Clark saw the problem: “From a police department point of view, it was a significant and risky IT project,” he says. ShotSpotter systems cost about $250,000 per square mile to install;... View Details
Robert G. Mondavi
Starting as a small premium winery, Mondavi built one of the largest, most respected wineries in the United States, producing over 500,000 cases of quality wine varieties per year. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Pierre S. du Pont
per month to 1 million pounds per day. duPont manufactured close to 1.5 billion pounds of military explosives during the war, and employed a high of 86,000 workers. In the process, duPont totally reorganized... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
elsewhere, obscuring its source and often producing a lower-quality product. The wholesaler sells the packaged saffron to a distributor. The distributor sells it to a retailer. The retailer sells it to the consumer. Retail price: Average of $13–$17 View Details