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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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The Oscillating Domains of Public and Private Markets

Harvard Corporate Governance

More than three decades ago, Nobel laureate Michael Jensen had predicted the ‘eclipse of the public corporation’ ( Harvard Business Review, 1989 ). Time and again, market developments seemed to corroborate Jensen’s hypothesis with various trajectories of growing private markets and lagging public markets. more…)

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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. more…)

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Not Even a Raging Bull Market Can Rescue SPACs

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Michael Eisenband, FTI Consulting, on Monday, July 29, 2024 Editor's Note: Michael Eisenband is Global Co-Leader of Corporate Finance & Restructuring at FTI Consulting. This post is based on his FTI Consulting memorandum. The recent Chapter 11 filing of Fisker, Inc.,

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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 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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FRP Corporate Finance advises on £25m Fresh Relevance sale

Accountancy Today

FRP Corporate Finance has announced its team has advised management and private equity investment manager Foresight Group LLP on its sale of e-commerce personalisation platform, Fresh Relevance for £25m. It was a pleasure working with Management and Foresight on this sale.”