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Standardization and Innovation in Venture Capital Contracting: Evidence from Startup Company Charters

Harvard Corporate Governance

In 2003, a group of approximately two dozen lawyers specializing in venture capital (VC) finance embarked on a mission to standardize the financing documents utilized by VC firms for investments in US-based startups. For this reason, central to the NVCA financing documents is the NVCA model charter. more…)

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Embedded Finance Comes Of Age

Global Finance

Embedded finance is revolutionizing global trade, making financing as simple as a click, and empowering SMEs previously locked out of traditional systems. Imagine a world where accessing trade finance is as simple as clicking a button, woven seamlessly into the fabric of online commerce. billion by 2033, up from $63.2

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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. This post is based on their recent paper.

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What Documents Are Needed To Sell A Business?

Sun Acquisitions

One of the first questions a seller often asks is, “What documents are needed to sell a business?”. We’ve split the required documents as follows: A checklist of the legal documents needed to sell a business. A checklist of the financial documents needed to sell a business. Legal Documents Needed to Sell a Business.

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Insider Trading in Connected Firms during Trading Bans

Harvard Corporate Governance

There is an extensive body of studies that documents that corporate insiders with access to insider information are able to earn abnormal returns by trading their firms shares. This post is based on their recent paper.

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The Corporate Investment Benefits of Mutual Fund Dual Holdings

Harvard Corporate Governance

Using detailed holding data of mutual funds, our paper first documents a rising trend in mutual fund dual holdings of U.S. This post is based on their working paper. Consequently, fund families managing both equity and bond funds are more likely to hold stocks and bonds from the same company simultaneously (“dual holdings”).

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Will Corporations Deliver Value to All Stakeholders?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Our analysis is based on a review of a large array of corporate documents of the 128 U.S. We manually collected and analyzed over six hundred corporate documents, which we are making publicly available in an online archive, the BRT Corporate Purpose Archive.

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