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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Brian DeChesare

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”

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Share Repurchases on Trial: Large-Sample Evidence on Market Outcomes, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Finances

Harvard Corporate Governance

Kothari is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management; and Parth Venkat is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business. Posted by Nicholas Guest (Cornell University), S.P.

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The Oscillating Domains of Public and Private Markets

Harvard Corporate Governance

These developments have caused much discussion, with some commentators again seeing a fundamental shift in the relevance of public and private markets for corporate finance and alarmed regulators. In particular, financial history shows various boom-and-bust periods in private market activity (see Kaplan & Strömberg, 2009 ).

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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

Musings on Markets

In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. In 2022, I decided that I had hit critical mass, in terms of corporate life cycle content, and that the material could be organized as a book.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

Join Wayne Spivak, experienced CFO and corporate finance expert, for an insightful discussion on managing cash flow and company profitability. Attendees will walk away with an in-depth understanding of the following: What is accounting?

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The Credit Markets Go Dark

Harvard Corporate Governance

In The Credit Markets Go Dark , we describe how private credit funds are reshaping corporate governance and corporate finance and offer new data capturing its meteoric rise. trillion in 2023.

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The 2023 Reporting Season: Recent SEC Guidance

Harvard Corporate Governance

Assess the Impact of SEC Staff Comments The staff of the Disclosure Review Program (DRP) in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has remained quite active. This post is based on their Skadden memorandum. 1] This uptick in comment letters reversed the downward trend of recent years.