private equity (LBO funds) - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Mar 2017
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(RRP). By expanding the overall supply of safe short-term claims, the Fed can weaken the market-based incentives for private sector intermediaries to issue too many of their own short-term liabilities. And crucially, we argue that the Fed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Feb 2014
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http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65 Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both debt and equity-into public and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

10 Jan 2005
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Professors Introduce Valuation Software

likely users of the product? Could you provide a scenario or two of how it would be used? A: The model is valuable for professional investors (money managers, financial analysts, hedge fund managers), for individuals that are interested... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
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Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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21 May 2013
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product, Satya Nadella must decide how to attract customers to the cloud-based platform. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/613047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-018 Messer Griesheim (A) (Abridged) The case explores the steps taken by View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

from true private equity operations; the other is a government agency charged with creating a clean energy economy for the United States. Each opportunity will help Iris achieve her long-term goal of a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

publishers like Random House respond to these trends? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710444-PDF-ENG AQR's Momentum Funds Daniel B. Bergstresser, Lauren H. Cohen, Randolph B. Cohen, and Christopher MalloyHarvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2019
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Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Beyond the basics: It’s never too soon to get “budget religion,” especially if you have a capital-intensive business where you need to figure out working capital, financing with manufacturing, etc. Ask for guidance on how best to manage your View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

25 Mar 2001
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Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

something for me." [Staples' head Thomas G.] Stemberg agreed to back him in exploring new businesses. Each ultimately invested $250,000 in a partnership to fund research on dry cleaning, an industry Stemberg had monitored for several... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

14 Aug 2012
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make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in countries with higher domestic credit. The higher contribution of financing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2015
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Publications June 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior By: Ayal, S., F. Gino, R. Barkan, and D. Ariely Abstract— Dishonesty and unethical behavior are widespread in the public and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2024
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Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

15 state or local governments had passed programs to pay for about $8 billion in medical relief. Five more are considering moves that would bring the total to almost $13 billion. Many work with a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt (formerly named RIP Medical Debt),... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

28 Jun 2011
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study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on management practices across the world? Read the paper: http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/611/index.html Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

FDI to the United States has averaged 4.3 percent while the average for outbound FDI from the United States has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn't reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period,... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

15 Oct 2013
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the private equity industry, he has one last opportunity to pitch the deal to Asdar Capital. If unsuccessful, the time on Sanankoua's exclusivity agreement with the owners will run out. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2012
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decision is private or public. Our results show that the opportunity to avoid being submitted to regulation produces more unethical conduct than situations in which regulation is either exogenously imposed or entirely absent. Read the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

attention to the question of when to mix qualitative and quantitative data in a single research paper. We discuss implications of the framework for educating new field researchers. Cooperation and Equity in the River Sharing Problem... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
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Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

supplemental executive retirement plans, in which up to 100 percent of one's compensation can be deferred into a non-taxable account that gets a guaranteed return that's much higher than, say, the State Treasury fund rate—it's often 9, 10... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Feb 2012
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the short-term have a more short-term oriented investor base. Moreover, we find that short-term oriented firms have higher stock price volatility, and that this effect is mitigated for firms with more long-term investors. We also find that short-term oriented firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

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Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

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