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Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick
Gompers, Paul A., Joy L. Ishii, and Andrew Metrick. "Corporate Governance and Equity Prices." Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, no. 1 (February 2003). (Winner of Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research presented by Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.)
- February 2003
- Supplement
Steel Cash
By: William E. Fruhan Jr. and Katherine A. Codega
Spreadsheet to (9-203-042). Test the impact of changes in wage rates on the value of debt and equity securities. Download only.
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- February 2003
- Article
Which Ties Matter When? The Contingent Effects of Interorganizational Partnerships on IPO Success
By: Ranjay Gulati and M. Higgins
This paper investigates the contingent value of interorganizational relationships at the time of a young firm's initial public offering (IPO). We compare the signaling value to young firms of having ties with two types of interorganizational partnerships: endorsement...
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Keywords:
Interorganizatonal Relationships;
Networks;
Venture Capital;
Initial Public Offering;
Entrepreneurship;
Biotechnology Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, and M. Higgins. "Which Ties Matter When? The Contingent Effects of Interorganizational Partnerships on IPO Success." Strategic Management Journal 24, no. 2 (February 2003): 127–144.
- 2003
- Chapter
Equity Financing
By: Paul Gompers and Joshua Lerner
Equity financing for entrepreneurial firms has attracted increasing attention in
both the popular press and academic literature. The dramatic growth in the
venture capital industry in the past two decades has been accompanied by new
academic research that explores...
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Gompers, Paul, and Joshua Lerner. "Equity Financing." In Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction, by Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch, 267–298. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
- 2003
- Article
Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview
By: Josh Lerner
This paper describes a course exploring the private equity industry, "Venture Capital and Private Equity". The goals of this article are two-fold: to make the structure and content of the class available to a broader audience beyond the audience of MBAs and executives...
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Lerner, Josh. "Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview." International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education 1, no. 3 (2003): 359–384.
- January 2003
- Article
Women Entrepreneurs Who Break Through to Equity Financing: The Influence of Human, Social and Financial Capital
By: Myra M. Hart, Nancy M. Carter, Candida G. Brush, Patricia G. Greene and Elizabeth Gatewood
Hart, Myra M., Nancy M. Carter, Candida G. Brush, Patricia G. Greene, and Elizabeth Gatewood. "Women Entrepreneurs Who Break Through to Equity Financing: The Influence of Human, Social and Financial Capital." Venture Capital 5, no. 1 (January 2003): 1–28.
- December 2002 (Revised February 2015)
- Case
Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (Abridged)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Barbara Feinberg
Jim Sharpe, 10 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, has finally become his own boss and 100% owner of manufacturer of aluminum extrusions. After 10 months of an unfunded search, he acquires the business in an LBO and prepares to face his...
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Keywords:
Search Funds;
Search;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Operations Strategy;
Acquisitions;
Work/family Balance;
Unions;
Union;
Turnarounds;
Funding Model;
LBO;
Bank Debt;
Bank Loans;
Equity Investment;
Career Management;
Small Business;
Work-Life Balance;
Negotiation;
Operations;
Labor Unions;
Investment;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Borrowing and Debt;
Business Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Barbara Feinberg. "Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (Abridged) ." Harvard Business School Case 603-084, December 2002. (Revised February 2015.)
- December 2002 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Tympani Board, The
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Mike Tarkington, a partner at Reality Venture Partners, must recommend a course of action to his colleague, Steve Bonhomme. Bonhomme is trying to decide whom he should put on the board of a company that is acquiring one of Reality's portfolio companies. Reality will...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Making;
Equity;
Venture Capital;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Finland;
United States
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tympani Board, The." Harvard Business School Case 803-105, December 2002. (Revised November 2003.)
- December 2002
- Article
The Persistence of Emerging Market Equity Flows
By: K. A. Froot and J. Donohue
Keywords:
Asset Pricing;
Equity Investment;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Behavioral Finance;
Stocks;
Investment Return;
Market Transactions;
Performance Expectations;
Financial Services Industry
Froot, K. A., and J. Donohue. "The Persistence of Emerging Market Equity Flows." Emerging Markets Review 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 338–364. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 9241, HBS Working Paper no. 03-035, September 2002.)
- September 2002 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Athleta
By: William A. Sahlman and Taslim Pirmohamed
The management team at Athleta is attempting to raise equity capital for the company in March 2002. Athleta is a catalog and online retailer of women's athletic clothing. The company has made substantial progress, with anticipated 2002 sales over $20 million, but has...
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Keywords:
Management Teams;
Financing and Loans;
Business Model;
Business Strategy;
Equity;
Capital;
Retail Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Taslim Pirmohamed. "Athleta." Harvard Business School Case 803-045, September 2002. (Revised July 2012.)
- August 2002
- Article
Seven Barriers to Customer Equity Management
By: D. Bell, J. Deighton, W. J. Reinartz, R. T. Rust and G. Swartz
Bell, D., J. Deighton, W. J. Reinartz, R. T. Rust, and G. Swartz. "Seven Barriers to Customer Equity Management." Journal of Service Research 5, no. 1 (August 2002): 77–85.
- June 2002
- Background Note
Note on the Equivalency of Methods for Discounting Cash Flows
Uses a numerical example to demonstrate that when you discount the cash flows to capital from a project at the weighted average cost of capital, you get same net present value result as you obtain when discounting the cash flows to equity at the cost of equity. Also...
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Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Note on the Equivalency of Methods for Discounting Cash Flows." Harvard Business School Background Note 202-128, June 2002.
- June 2002
- Article
The Effects of CEO Equity Ownership and Diversification on Risk Taking
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "The Effects of CEO Equity Ownership and Diversification on Risk Taking." Strategic Management Journal 23, no. 6 (June 2002): 513–534.
- April 2002 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel, 2001, The
By: Peter Tufano
Bethlehem Steel's 2001 bankruptcy filing inspires an employee's daughter to evaluate her father's pension plan, weeks after September 11's tragedies exacerbated a weakening U.S. economy and just months before her father planned to retire. Battered equity markets and...
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Tufano, Peter, Zvi Bodie, and Akiko M. Mitsui. "Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel, 2001, The." Harvard Business School Case 202-088, April 2002. (Revised October 2003.)
- April 2002
- Article
Limited Arbitrage in Mergers and Acquisitions
By: Malcolm Baker and Serkan Savasoglu
A diversified portfolio of risk arbitrage positions produces an abnormal return of 0.6-0.9% per month over the period from 1981 to 1996. We trace these profits to practical limits on risk arbitrage. In our model of risk arbitrage, arbitrageurs' risk-bearing capacity...
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Keywords:
Arbitrage;
Market Efficiency;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Profit;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Corporate Strategy;
Capital;
Banking Industry
Baker, Malcolm, and Serkan Savasoglu. "Limited Arbitrage in Mergers and Acquisitions." Journal of Financial Economics 64, no. 1 (April 2002): 91–116.
- 2002
- Other Unpublished Work
Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeremy Stein
We build a model that helps to explain why increases in liquidity—such as lower bid–ask spreads, a lower price impact of trade, or higher turnover—predict lower subsequent returns in both firm-level and aggregate data. The model features a class of irrational...
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Keywords:
Price;
Financial Liquidity;
Trade;
Valuation;
Markets;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Equity;
Stock Shares;
Investment Return
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeremy Stein. "Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator." NBER Working Paper Series, 2002. (First draft in 2001.)
- February 2002
- Article
Market Timing and Capital Structure
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
It is well known that firms tend to raise equity when their market values are high relative to book and past market values. We document that the resulting effects on capital structure are very persistent. As a consequence, current capital structure is strongly related...
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Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Market Timing and Capital Structure." Journal of Finance 57, no. 1 (February 2002): 1–32. (Winner of Brattle Prize. First Prize Paper For outstanding papers on corporate finance published in the Journal of Finance presented by Brattle Group, Inc. Reprinted in Recent Developments in Corporate Finance, edited by Jay Ritter. Edward Elgar Publishing: UK, 2005.)
- January 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Finova Group, Inc. (A), The
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry Fagan
Finova Group, a $14 billion commercial finance company, filed for Chapter 11 in early March 2001, in what was one of the largest U.S. bankruptcy filings of all time and the largest corporate bond default since the Great Depression. While in Chapter 11, Finova became...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Business Startups;
Borrowing and Debt;
Equity;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Debt Securities;
Price;
Crisis Management;
Bids and Bidding;
Partners and Partnerships;
Strategy;
Valuation;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Perry Fagan. "Finova Group, Inc. (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 202-095, January 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
- 2002
- Article
The Diana Project: Women Business Owners & Equity Capital: The Myths Dispelled.
By: Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart