Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 16, 2023

Robertson, Jenner & Block LLP, on Friday, June 9, 2023 Tags: Corporate culture , Disclosure , Environmental disclosure , environmental justice , internal stakeholders , regulation , Risk oversight Drag-Along Provisions and Covenants Not to Sue in the Private Company M&A Context Posted by Amy L. Simmerman, David J. Berger, and Ryan J.

Treasury 185

Treasury Marketability 185

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Posted by Benjamin Bennett (Tulane University), René M. Stulz (Ohio State University), and Zexi Wang (Lancaster University), on Monday, February 6, 2023 Tags: CEOs , Corporate governance , Public Scrutiny , ROA , S&P 500 , SEC ESG in 2023: Politics and Polemics Posted by David N.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 8, 2022

Cunningham (George Washington University), on Sunday, July 3, 2022. Cunningham (George Washington University), on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Posted by Scott Hirst (Boston University), and Adriana Robertson (University of Chicago), on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Posted by Lawrence A.

Capital Structure 202

Capital Structure Finance 202

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 6, 2022

Posted by Aneil Kovvali (University of Chicago), on Friday, April 29, 2022. Posted by Andrew Weiss (Boston University), on Monday, May 2, 2022. How to Focus the Company Around ESG Priorities. Posted by Peter Molk (University of Florida), on Thursday, May 5, 2022. Stark Choices for Corporate Reform.

Capital Structure 212

Capital Structure Compliance 212

Benzinga

DECEMBER 4, 2023

BOSTON and HOUSTON, Dec. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- imaware, a digital health platform company powering home-testing for healthcare brands, and binx health, a molecular diagnostics and consumer testing company, today announced that imaware has acquired binx health's at-home consumer testing business.

Marketability 45

Marketability 45

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 1, 2022

It Pays For Companies To Leave Russia. Posted by Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Alex He (University of Maryland), and Daniel le Maire (University of Copenhagen), on Monday, June 27, 2022. University of Pennsylvania), on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Posted by Molly Stutzman, JUST Capital, on Friday, June 24, 2022. Posted by Leo E.

Equity 100

Equity Marketability Technology 100

Benzinga

AUGUST 10, 2022

Alicia earned both her Juris Doctor and LLM in Taxation degrees from Boston University School of Law. . During this time, she developed specialized expertise in cross-border mergers and acquisitions tax, specializing in both private equity and strategic transactions. Stambaugh Ness President and Chief Executive Officer, Steven L.

Compliance 52

Compliance Equity Technology 52

Benzinga

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Flywire Corporation (Flywire) (NASDAQ: FLYW ) a global payments enablement and software company, announced that it has acquired StudyLink, an innovative provider of international student admissions, application and agent management software serving universities throughout Australia.

Marketability 40

Marketability Technology 40

ThomsonReuters

AUGUST 10, 2023

As such, unsurprisingly, 70% of all companies in the U.S. have a “digital transformation strategy” already in place, notes Boston University’s (BU) The Blog Chain. This transformation, though, does come with some inherent challenges.

Technology 97

Technology 97

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Webber (Boston University), David Berger (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), and Beth Young (Corporate Governance & Sustainable Strategies), on Monday, February 27, 2023 Editor's Note: David H. Posted by David H.

Compliance 233

Compliance Marketability 233

Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if University A has sent 500 students into investment banking roles over the past 5 years, accounting for 10% of total IB hires in the country, and University B has only sent 50, University A is a “target school,” while University B is more of a “semi-target.”. In the U.S.,

Banking 52

Banking Finance Start-ups Corporate Finance 52

M&A Leadership Council

AUGUST 1, 2023

These columns cover one or more likely CMAS ® exam question and will help you accelerate completion of this important career credential. Why would a newly combined company want to have different pay plans for its units? Incentive pay targets vary by type of company. Yes, there are universal principles for good pay planning.

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Total Shareholder Return Mergers & Acquisitions Start-ups Equity 52

Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Domestic passive funds and ETFs now manage more than half of all assets under management (AUM) of domestic equity mutual funds and ETFs, and the Big Three passive fund managers (BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard) cast over a quarter of the votes in S&P 500 companies. University of Pennsylvania Law Review 168, 17-72; Kahan, M.,

Firm Value 122

Firm Value Finance Marketability Equity 122

M&A Leadership Council

JULY 13, 2023

Here again, precedent transactions share several of these disadvantages with their comparable company brethren. Arguably, the biggest question to ask is whether the public data on past transactions are “clean” or whether they might be limited and/or misleading.

Precedent Transaction Analysis 52

Precedent Transaction Analysis Comps Mergers & Acquisitions Banking 52

M&A Leadership Council

JULY 13, 2023

Here again, precedent transactions share several of these disadvantages with their comparable company brethren. Arguably, the biggest question to ask is whether the public data on past transactions are “clean” or whether they might be limited and/or misleading.

Precedent Transaction Analysis 52

Precedent Transaction Analysis Comps Mergers & Acquisitions Banking 52

Reynolds Holding

JUNE 27, 2023

In recent years, mainstream financial services companies have acquired many of the early climate-analytics startups and weather-modeling firms. In the accelerating “climate intelligence arms race,” companies increasingly claim to use better science, better methods and models, and more comprehensive data than their competitors. [1]

Banking 83

Banking Finance Equity Technology 83

Reynolds Holding

MAY 31, 2023

Further, are the effects of such investments different for corporate investors in the financial services sector (which may have greater synergies with fintech startups, e.g., PayPal) than for other companies (which are unlikely to have high synergies with fintech startups, e.g., Amazon)? This post comes to us from professors Thomas J.

Banking 52

Banking Finance Marketability Technology 52

Reynolds Holding

JULY 6, 2022

Can investors successfully advocate for improved ESG outcomes at their portfolio companies? While there is significant evidence of investor demand for ESG, there is less evidence about how investors can successfully advocate for improved ESG outcomes at their portfolio companies.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Posted by Raymond Fisman (Boston University), on Friday, February 3, 2023 Editor's Note: Raymond Fisman is Slater Family Professor in Behavioral Economics at Boston University. companies has increased dramatically, from just 6 percent in 1950 to 65 percent in 2017. As a result, a large fraction of the U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 21, 2023

Our paper aims to analyze the dynamics of the IPO valuation premium before 2000 and after 2000, thereby generating new insights into the IPO valuation premium and the reasons why more companies have exited through acquisitions than IPOs since 2000. We first develop a theoretical model of the dynamics of the exit choices.

Marketability 59

Marketability Finance Equity Equity Financing 59

Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A: Once the spin-off is complete, I expect that Credit Suisse (or “First Boston”) will be classified as an elite boutique rather than a bulge bracket bank. Q: You finally gave in and “ranked” universities and business schools. What about the other European banks? And since Michael Klein is taking over, I expect that M. Klein & Co.

Banking 92

Banking Start-ups Finance EBITDA 92

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 26, 2024

Cohen and Fuad Rana, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Monday, January 22, 2024 Tags: Cybersecurity , ESG , Human capital , Public Companies , public company enforcement , SEC Indexing and the Incorporation of Exogenous Information Shocks to Stock Prices Posted by Randall Morck (Alberta School of Business) and M. Uyeda, U.S.

Compliance 100

Compliance Equity Technology Banking 100

Reynolds Holding

JUNE 23, 2022

salary, bonus, stock, and stock options), a variety of performance metrics, multiple periods for measuring performance, and different performance benchmarks (whether measured in relation to a specific pre-set target or the performance of a peer company). Using a sample of approximately 1,700 firms operating in the U.S.

Marketability 85

Marketability 85

Brian DeChesare

JUNE 22, 2022

just like “elite” universities and the government, are in a period of institutional decline. Search for firms close to your university or current city and network aggressively until you find an opportunity. Major cities in the U.S., I enjoy watching the flames from a safe distance. Moving northward, Washington, D.C.

Banking 97

Banking Start-ups Finance Marketability 97

Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And then, from 2005, UK-listed companies became governed by the IASB regime and were freed from amortization. In 2020 it was reported that “FASB tentatively said it would require public companies to amortize goodwill over a 10-year period on a straight-line basis only, without exception [18].” standards. [6] 11] Hoogervorst, H.

Intangible Assets 45

Intangible Assets Book Value Banking Finance 45

Reynolds Holding

MAY 5, 2022

The attorneys general of 17 “red” states have faced off against the SEC, the ACLU, an “ Ad Hoc Coalition of Nasdaq-Listed Companies,” and a group of “Investors and Investment Advisers.” The rule requires companies to make this disclosure on an annual basis. Numerous Groups File Amicus Briefs Supporting the Board Diversity Rule.

Compliance 49

Compliance Marketability 49

Reynolds Holding

JULY 27, 2022

Most recently, Twitter’s stock price rose to around $39 after the Delaware chancellor granted the company an expedited trial. She is universally agreed to be likeable, pleasant, intelligent, and reasonable. Boston Sci. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance.

Equity 122

Equity Marketability Technology 122

Reynolds Holding

APRIL 7, 2024

56 University of California Davis Law Review 2017 (2023). [7] Bainbridge, “A Critique of The American Law Institute’s Draft Restatement of the Corporate Objective,” 2 University of Chicago Business Law Review 1 (2023), [link] (citing and quoting Eric W. Bainbridge, The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization 169 (2023).

Business Enterprise 59

Business Enterprise Marketability Finance 59

Benzinga

OCTOBER 20, 2022

China Held Emergency Meetings With Semiconductor Companies After Biden’s Curbs. The technology overseer called executives from companies, including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. The company faces a late December deadline for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to certify the MAX 7 and MAX 10. Wall Street Journal.

Technology 52

Technology Marketability 52

Reynolds Holding

MARCH 28, 2022

1] The point is best illustrated by the departure of Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, who was perceived by labor to be a “union buster,” [2] and the arrival of former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, the first union member to serve as secretary in decades. [3] Senate confirmed former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to lead the Department of Labor.

Equity 105

Equity Private Equity Firm Finance Marketability 105