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  • August 2020
  • Background Note

US Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Holly Fetter
This is the second part of a two-part note. The first part (A) explores how US private equity firms are incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) factors and impact objectives into their investment strategies and firm practices. It is based on publicly... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Lyondell Chemical Company (HBS Case #210001)

    Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest internationally diversified chemical companies and headquartered in The Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations... View Details

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    What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
    We survey 79 private equity investors with combined assets under management (AUM) of over $750 billion about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on internal rate of return (IRR) and multiples to... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Capital Structure; Value Creation
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    Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?" Journal of Financial Economics 121, no. 3 (September 2016): 449–476.
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    Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

    HBS Course Catalog Private Equity Finance Course Number 1440 Senior Lecturer Ted Berk Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Overview This is an advanced corporate finance course focused on View Details
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting

    By: Erik Stafford
    Private equity funds tend to select relatively small firms with low EBITDA multiples. Publicly traded equities with these characteristics have high risk-adjusted returns after controlling for common factors typically associated with value stocks. Hold-to-maturity... View Details
    Keywords: Value Investing; Endowments; Investment Management; Asset Pricing; Private Equity; Investment; Management; United States
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    Stafford, Erik. "Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-081, January 2016.
    • April 2006 (Revised April 2012)
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    The Role of Private Equity Firms in Merger and Acquisition Transactions

    By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
    Explores the importance of private equity firms in merger and acquisitions activity around the globe. In many countries, these firms now account for one quarter of the total merger and acquisition activity of all firms. The larger private equity firms generate fees for... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Value Creation
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    Fruhan, William E., Jr. "The Role of Private Equity Firms in Merger and Acquisition Transactions." Harvard Business School Background Note 206-101, April 2006. (Revised April 2012.)
    • May 2015 (Revised October 2015)
    • Background Note

    Upstream Oil and Gas Private Equity

    By: Victoria Ivashina, Graham Patton and Tyler Todd
    Keywords: Private Equity; Non-Renewable Energy; Energy Sources
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    Ivashina, Victoria, Graham Patton, and Tyler Todd. "Upstream Oil and Gas Private Equity." Harvard Business School Background Note 215-068, May 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
    • August 2020
    • Background Note

    US Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Holly Fetter
    This Note has two parts. The first part (A) explores how U.S. private equity firms are incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) factors and impact objectives into their investment strategies and firm practices. It is based on publicly available... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Paine, Lynn S., and Holly Fetter. "U.S. Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (A)." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-036, August 2020.
    • 01 Sep 2012
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    Private equity in China: Hony ahoy

    • 08 May 2008
    • News

    The changing face of private equity

    • January 2022
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    Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity

    By: Josh Lerner, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar and Nan R. Zhang
    This paper uses previously unexplored custodial data to examine the use of alternative investment vehicles in private equity (PE) over four decades. We document a steep increase in the capital directed to alternative vehicles, with these vehicles approaching a 40%... View Details
    Keywords: Alternative Investment Vehicles; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Performance
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    Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang. "Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity." Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 1 (January 2022): 359–380. (Won the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper.)
    • 2004
    • Class Lecture

    Boom and Bust in Private Equity

    By: Josh Lerner
    Keywords: Private Equity
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    Lerner, Josh. "Boom and Bust in Private Equity." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2004. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 9-756-1C.)
    • February 2018
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    Omar Simmons: Franchising and Private Equity

    By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-055. View Details
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    Rogers, Steven, and Alyssa Haywoode. "Omar Simmons: Franchising and Private Equity." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 318-056, February 2018.
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    What's Behind the Private Equity Boom?

    • 11 May 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

    Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan & Vladimir Mukharlyamov; Financial Services
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    Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

    Summary Raising private capital can be a daunting process, especially for new entrants in the sector. Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital delves into the... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Finance
    • June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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    Siemens AG: A Private Equity Approach within an Industrial Corporation?

    By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert
    In July 2022, Horst Kayser, Chairman of Siemens AG Portfolio Companies (POC), was reflecting on the advice he could offer Roland Busch, Chief Executive Officer of the parent company Siemens AG, about whether and how to operate a private equity-like approach inside the... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Management; Value Creation; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy
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    Collis, David J., and Haisley Wert. "Siemens AG: A Private Equity Approach within an Industrial Corporation?" Harvard Business School Case 723-420, June 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
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    The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

    By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
    We examine twenty years of direct private equity investments by seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however,... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Intermediation; Direct Investment; Co-investment; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets
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    Fang, Lily, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity." Journal of Financial Economics 116, no. 1 (April 2015): 160–178.
    • October 2004
    • Class Lecture

    Boom and Bust in Private Equity

    By: Josh Lerner
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    Lerner, Josh. "Boom and Bust in Private Equity." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 205-028, October 2004.
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
    Most research on the CEO labor market studies public company CEOs while largely ignoring CEOs in private equity (PE) funded companies. We fill this gap by studying the market for CEOs among U.S. companies purchased by PE firms in large leveraged buyout transactions.... View Details
    Keywords: CEOs; Jobs and Positions; Ownership; Recruitment
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    Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30899, April 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
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