Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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.”

Corporate Finance 105

Corporate Finance Finance Treasury Banking 105

Reynolds Holding

APRIL 17, 2022

Then I show how the market has developed a new corporate structure designed to solve these problems, which relies on a subtler form of insulation. The second is a motivation problem : Managers can’t give their employees the right incentives to bring the technology to market. But there’s a catch.

Technology 85

Technology Net Present Value Finance Equity 85

Musings on Markets

MARCH 5, 2025

After reporting on the total cash returned during the year, by public companies, in the form of dividends and buybacks, I scale the cash returned to earnings (payout ratios) and to market cap (yield) and present the cross sectional distribution of both statistics across global companies.

Dividends 52

Dividends Start-ups Equity Corporate Finance 52