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The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity

Harvard Corporate Governance

Kaplan is the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; and Vladimir Mukharlyamov is Assistant Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. We find that 71% of those companies hired new CEOs under private equity ownership.

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How to Start a Private Equity Firm – and Why You Probably Shouldn’t

Brian DeChesare

If you search for “how to start a private equity firm” online, you’ll find results that range from useless to tangentially useful to occasional nuggets of real wisdom. Starting a private equity firm is a bad decision for ~95% of people who work in the finance industry. In the U.S.

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Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance: Careers, Recruiting, Financial Modeling, and More

Brian DeChesare

With the craze over renewable energy and infrastructure over the past few years, we’ve received more and more questions about Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance. And yes, coincidentally, we have a new Project Finance & Infrastructure Modeling course. By contrast, Project Finance roles are more specialized and “siloed.”

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The Financial Sponsors Group: Masters of the Financial Universe, or Exit Opportunity Mirage?

Brian DeChesare

FSG Investment Banking: What the Financial Sponsors Group Does The Financial Sponsors Group vs. the Financial Institutions Group The Financial Sponsors Group vs. Leveraged Finance vs. Debt Capital Markets Recruiting: Who Gets Into the Financial Sponsors Group? The Financial Sponsors Group vs. Leveraged Finance vs. Debt Capital Markets.

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Industrials Private Equity: The Best Place for Old-School Deals at Reasonable Multiples?

Brian DeChesare

But the real question is this: If you accept an industrials private equity job, will you end up more like Andrew Carnegie or Henry Phipps, or will your career trajectory resemble a distressed tire manufacturing company that later declared bankruptcy?

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Net Debt Bridge – Concept and Formula Explained

Valutico

Enterprise Value (EV) is the total value of a company, considering both its debt and equity. Equity Value (EQV) represents the value attributable to the company’s shareholders. By understanding changes in net debt, investors can evaluate financial health, debt management, and overall risk.

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Transformative Transactions: Q&A With McKinsey’s Chris Hagedorn

Global Finance

Chris Hagedorn, senior partner at McKinsey’s Transformation practice and leader of the firm’s transformational M&A work, speaks to Global Finance about how his firm works with clients at a time of high debt costs, tight labor markets, and a scarcity of available talent. They need to take transactions on. Also, pharma.