Steven N. Kaplan

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

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How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-33, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 477/2016
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 29 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 10 May 2017
Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
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venture capital, entrepreneurship

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

NBER Working Paper No. w22587
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 07 Sep 2016
Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
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Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?

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Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Fama-Miller Working Paper, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 11-44, Darden Business School Working Paper No. 1932316
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013
Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven N. Kaplan
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Private Equity, Venture Capital

Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?

NBER Working Paper No. w17874
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 24 Feb 2012
Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven N. Kaplan
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4446-03; AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Dec 2003
Steven N. Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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private equity partnerships, fund returns,

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Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity

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Citation 148

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2009
Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance
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Private Equity

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity

NBER Working Paper No. w14207
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance
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The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?

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The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 23/2003
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Sep 2003
Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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U.S. corporate governance system, shareholder value, executive compensation, boards, Sarbanes-Oxley act, comparative corporate governance

The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?

NBER Working Paper No. w9613
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2009
Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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How Do Private Equity Investments Perform Compared to Public Equity?

Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2597259
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2015
Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven N. Kaplan
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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private equity, venture capital, performance, public markets

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What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

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What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 121, No. 3, 2016
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 10 May 2017
Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
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private equity, valuation, capital structure, value creation

What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 15-081, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 15-081
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 01 May 2015
Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
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What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

NBER Working Paper No. w21133
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 04 May 2015 Last Revised: 30 May 2015
Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
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Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the U.S.: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s

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Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the U.S.: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s

MIT Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 01-11
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Feb 2001
Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Corporate Governance; Stock Options; Mergers and Acquisitions

Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the U.S.: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s

NBER Working Paper No. w8220
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Apr 2001 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2001
Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

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Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

Swedish Institute for Financial Research Conference on the Economics of the Private Equity Market, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov and Morten Sorensen
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business (GSB) and Copenhagen Business School
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CEO characteristics, private equity

Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

NBER Working Paper No. w14195
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov and Morten Sorensen
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business (GSB) and Copenhagen Business School
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Are CEOs Different?

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Are CEOs Different?

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-27, Paris December 2016 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 15 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2019
Steven N. Kaplan and Morten Sorensen
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Copenhagen Business School
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CEOs, CFOs, COOs, Managerial Characteristics, Hiring Decisions, Corporate Governance

Are CEOS Different? Characteristics of Top Managers

NBER Working Paper No. w23832
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2017
Steven N. Kaplan and Morten Sorensen
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Copenhagen Business School
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Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts

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Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts

CRSP Working Paper No. 513
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 26 Apr 2000
Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance
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Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts

NBER Working Paper No. w7660
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 16 May 2000 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2013
Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance
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Has Persistence Persisted in Private Equity? Evidence from Buyout and Venture Capital Funds

Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2304808, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2014
Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and Rüdiger Stucke
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Warburg Pincus
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Private equity, performance persistence, venture capital

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Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts and Challenges

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Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts and Challenges

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-42, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2012
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation

Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts and Challenges

NBER Working Paper No. w18395
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Sep 2012
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

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Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

CRSP Working Paper No. 615, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Joshua D. Rauh and Steven N. Kaplan
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Compensation, Wage Differentials, Income Inequality, Corporate Governance

Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

NBER Working Paper No. w13270
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 23 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2007
Joshua D. Rauh and Steven N. Kaplan
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Should Investors Bet on the Jockey or the Horse? Evidence from the Evolution of Firms from Early Business Plans to Public Companies

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Should Investors Bet on the Jockey or the Horse? Evidence from the Evolution of Firms from Early Business Plans to Public Companies

CRSP Working Paper No. 603
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Feb 2005
Steven N. Kaplan, Berk A. Sensoy and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Swedish House of Finance
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Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Theory of the firm

What are Firms? Evolution from Early Business Plans to Public Companies

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 14 Apr 2006
Steven N. Kaplan, Berk A. Sensoy and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Swedish House of Finance
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Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Theory of the firm

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Private Equity Performance: A Survey

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Private Equity Performance: A Survey

Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2015-10 , Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2015-03-10
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2015
Steven N. Kaplan and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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private equity, performance

Private Equity Performance: A Survey

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 597-614, 2015
Posted: 11 Dec 2015
Steven N. Kaplan and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance

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CEO Personality and Firm Policies

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CEO Personality and Firm Policies

6th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-34, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 16-13, Fama-Miller Working Paper, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 220
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 08 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2016
Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina
University of Melbourne, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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CEO Personality, leadership traits, personality measures, Big Five personality, CEO investment choices, CEO financing choices, firm operating performance

CEO Personality and Firm Policies

NBER Working Paper No. w22435
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 25 Jul 2016
Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker and Anastasia Zakolyukina
University of Melbourne, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago
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Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 30 May 2013 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2017
Gregory W. Brown, Oleg Gredil and Steven N. Kaplan
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Private Equity, Venture Capital, Buyout Funds Mutual Funds, Institutional Investors

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A Clinical Exploration of Value Creation and Destruction in Acquisitions: Organization Design, Incentives, and Internal Capital Markets

Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No. 450
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Aug 1997
Steven N. Kaplan, Mark L. Mitchell and Karen H. Wruck
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance
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Characteristics, Contracts and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses

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Characteristics, Contracts and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses

CRSP Working Paper No. 536
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Jan 2002
Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance
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Characteristics, Contracts, and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses

AFA 2002 Atlanta Meetings
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Dec 2001
Per Strömberg and Steven N. Kaplan
Swedish House of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Characteristics, Contracts, and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses

NBER Working Paper No. w8764
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 22 May 2002
Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance
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Characteristics, Contracts and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3243
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 Apr 2002
Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance
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Investment banking, venture capital, financing policy, capital and ownership structure, brokerage

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Financial Intermediation in Private Equity: How Well Do Funds of Funds Perform?

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Financial Intermediation in Private Equity: How Well Do Funds of Funds Perform?

Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2620582
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 13 May 2017
Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and Rüdiger Stucke
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Warburg Pincus
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private equity, fund of funds, financial intermediation, venture capital

Financial Intermediation in Private Equity: How Well Do Funds of Funds Perform?

NBER Working Paper No. w23428
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 24 May 2017
Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and Ruediger Stucke
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Warburg Pincus LLC
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Effects of Lbos on Tax Revenues of the U.S. Treasury

Tax Notes, Vol. 42, No. 6, 1989
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Aug 2000
Michael C. Jensen, Steven N. Kaplan and Laura Stiglin
Harvard Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Econalytics
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How Costly is Financial (Not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 Apr 1997
Steven N. Kaplan and Gregor Andrade
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies

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What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies

AFA 2001 New Orleans Meetings
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 16 Sep 2000
Pekka Hietala, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson
INSEAD - Finance, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies

NBER Working Paper No. w9264
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2002
Pekka Hietala, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson
INSEAD - Finance, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies

Financial Management, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2003
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Jan 2005
Pekka Hietala, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson
INSEAD - Finance, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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Can Investors Time Their Exposure to Private Equity?

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Can Investors Time Their Exposure to Private Equity?

Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 18-26
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2020
Gregory W. Brown, Robert S. Harris, Wendy Hu, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Burgiss, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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Private equity, venture capital, commitment strategies, buyouts

Can Investors Time Their Exposure to Private Equity?

NBER Working Paper No. w26755
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Feb 2020
Gregory W. Brown, Robert S. Harris, Wendy Hu, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Burgiss, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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What Do Different Commercial Data Sets Tell Us About Private Equity Performance?

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What Do Different Commercial Data Sets Tell Us About Private Equity Performance?

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 14 Dec 2015
Gregory W. Brown, Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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Private Equity, Venture Capital

What Do Different Commercial Data Sets Tell Us About Private Equity Performance?

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 14 Dec 2015
Gregory W. Brown, Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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Private Equity, Venture Capital

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The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs

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The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Dec 2000
Luis Garicano and Steven N. Kaplan
IE Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs

NBER Working Paper No. w8017
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Nov 2000 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2002
Luis Garicano and Steven N. Kaplan
IE Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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The Effects of Stock Lending on Security Prices: An Experiment

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The Effects of Stock Lending on Security Prices: An Experiment

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 09-39, Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Working Paper No. 42, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-020, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-20, AFA 2011 Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 22 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2013
Steven N. Kaplan, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale University, Yale SOM and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Short Selling, Securities Lending, Stock Prices

The Effects of Stock Lending on Security Prices: an Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w16335
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 07 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2013
Steven N. Kaplan, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale University, Yale SOM and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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How Well Do Venture Capital Databases Reflect Actual Investments?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Oct 2006
Steven N. Kaplan, Per Strömberg and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Swedish House of Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 869 (28,772)
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venture capital, databases, investments

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Berg Electronics Corporation

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Jan 2001
Steven N. Kaplan, John D. Martin and Robert Parrino
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Baylor University - Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
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How Do Legal Differences and Learning Affect Financial Contracts?

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How Do Legal Differences and Learning Affect Financial Contracts?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Jun 2004
Steven N. Kaplan, Per Strömberg and Frederic Martel
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Swedish House of Finance and UBS Global Asset Management
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Venture Capital, financial contracting, law and finance, capital and ownership structure

How Do Legal Differences and Learning Affect Financial Contracts?

NBER Working Paper No. w10097
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2014
Steven N. Kaplan, Frederic Martel and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, UBS Global Asset Management and Swedish House of Finance
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How Do Legal Differences and Learning Affect Financial Contracts?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4161
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Jan 2004
Steven N. Kaplan, Frederic Martel and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, UBS Global Asset Management and Swedish House of Finance
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Are U.S. Companies Too Short-Term Oriented? Some Thoughts

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Are U.S. Companies Too Short-Term Oriented? Some Thoughts

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 May 2017
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Short-Termism, Investment, Innovation

Are U.S. Companies Too Short-Term Oriented? Some Thoughts

NBER Working Paper No. w23464
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Jun 2017
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Are U.S. Companies Too Short‐Term Oriented? Some Thoughts

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 30, Issue 4, pp. 8-18, 2018
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Feb 2019
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Private Equity Portfolio Companies: A First Look at Burgiss Holdings Data

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Mar 2020
Gregory W. Brown, Robert S. Harris, Wendy Hu, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Burgiss, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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Private Equity, buyouts, venture capital, portfolio company

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Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities are Not Valid Measures of Financing Constraints

NBER Working Paper No. w7659
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 May 2000 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2001
Steven N. Kaplan and Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Do Financing Constraints Explain Why Investment is Correlated with Cash Flow?

NBER Working Paper No. w5267
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2008
Steven N. Kaplan and Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w9807
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2014
Steven N. Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis

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The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis

NBER Working Paper No. w4724
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Jun 2000
Steven N. Kaplan and Richard S. Ruback
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School
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The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis

Posted: 08 Aug 1994
Steven N. Kaplan and Richard S. Ruback
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School

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The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis

JOURNAL OF FINANCE, Vol 50 No 4, September 1995
Posted: 18 Aug 1995
Steven N. Kaplan and Richard S. Ruback
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School

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38.

The Evolution of Buyout Pricing and Financial Structure

NBER Working Paper No. w3695
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2010
Steven N. Kaplan and Jeremy C. Stein
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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How Has CEO Turnover Changed? Increasingly Performance Sensitive Boards and Increasingly Uneasy CEOS

NBER Working Paper No. w12465
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2010
Steven N. Kaplan and Bernadette A. Minton
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence from Disvestitures

NBER Working Paper No. w3484
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2010
Steven N. Kaplan and Michael S. Weisbach
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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How Costly is Financial (Not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed

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How Costly is Financial (Not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed

NBER Working Paper No. w6145
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Sep 2000
Gregor Andrade and Steven N. Kaplan
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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How Costly is Financial (Not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed

Posted: 23 May 1998
Gregor Andrade and Steven N. Kaplan
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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42.

Venture Capitalists as Principals: Contracting, Screening, and Monitoring

NBER Working Paper No. w8202
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 31 Mar 2001 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2010
Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance
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The Staying Power of Leveraged Buyouts

NBER Working Paper No. w3653
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Jan 2001 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2010
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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What are Firms? Evolution from Birth to Public Companies

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What are Firms? Evolution from Birth to Public Companies

NBER Working Paper No. w11581
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2014
Steven N. Kaplan, Berk A. Sensoy and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Swedish House of Finance
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What are Firms? Evolution from Birth to Public Companies

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5224
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 Oct 2005
Steven N. Kaplan, Per Strömberg and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Swedish House of Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Entrepreneurship, theory of the firm, venture capital

45.

Top Executive Rewards and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Japan and the U.S

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Top Executive Rewards and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Japan and the U.S

NBER Working Paper No. w4065
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2010
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Top Executive Rewards and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Japan and the U.S

Posted: 24 Oct 1999
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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A Clinical Exploration of Value Creation and Destruction in Acquisitions: Organizational Design, Incentives, and Internal Capital Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w5999
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 07 Jul 2000
Steven N. Kaplan, Mark L. Mitchell and Karen H. Wruck
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance
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Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges

NBER Working Paper No. w22500
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Aug 2016
Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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How Risky is the Debt in Highly Leveraged Transactions? Evidence from Public Recapitalizations

NBER Working Paper No. w3390
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Apr 2011
Steven N. Kaplan and Jeremy C. Stein
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany

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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany

NBER Working Paper No. w4416
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Top Executives, Turnover, and Firm Performance in Germany

Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization: Volume 10 Number 1, April 1994.
Posted: 03 May 2000
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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50.

Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns?

NBER Working Paper No. w22493
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 08 Aug 2016
Gregory W. Brown, Oleg Gredil and Steven N. Kaplan
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area, Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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The Holding Period Distinction of the Capital Gains Tax

NBER Working Paper No. w0762
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2010
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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'Outside' Intervention in Japanese Companies: its Determinants and Implications for Mangers

NBER Working Paper No. w4276
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2010
Steven N. Kaplan and Bernadette A. Minton
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business - Economics
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53.

It Ain't Broke: The Past, Present, and Future of Venture Capital

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 36-47, Spring 2010
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 28 Jul 2010
Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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54.

Morgan Stanley Roundtable on the State of Global Private Equity

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 23, Issue 4, pp. 8-33, 2011
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Dec 2011
Alan Jones, Steven N. Kaplan, Carl Ferenbach, Mike Bingle, Marc Lipschultz and Phil Canfield
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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CEO Pay and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp. 8-25, 2013
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Sep 2013
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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56.

How Has CEO Turnover Changed?

International Review of Finance, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 57-87, 2012
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 31 Mar 2012
Steven N. Kaplan and Bernadette A. Minton
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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57.

Do Mutual Funds Time Their Benchmarks?

Posted: 14 Mar 2006
Steven N. Kaplan and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance

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Mutual Funds, Market Timing, Benchmarks, Cash

58.

Appointments of Outsiders to Japanese Boards: Determinants and Implications for Managers

Posted: 10 Aug 1999
Steven N. Kaplan and Bernadette A. Minton
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

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59.

Do Investment-Cashflow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?

Posted: 25 Jun 1998
Steven N. Kaplan and Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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60.

Those Japanese Firms with Their Disdain for Shareholders: Another Fable for the Academy

Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 74, Issue 2 (1996).
Posted: 19 May 1998
Steven N. Kaplan and J. Mark Ramseyer
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Law School

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61.

Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity: Course Description and Course Syllabus

Posted: 22 Sep 1997
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Do Investment Cash-Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?

QUARTERLY J. OF ECONOMICS, Vol. 112 No. 1, February 1997
Posted: 21 Jul 1997
Steven N. Kaplan and Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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63.

The Value-Maximizing Board

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The Value-Maximizing Board

Posted: 09 Jun 1997
Robert H. Gertner and Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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The Value Maximizing Board

Posted: 20 Sep 1998
Robert H. Gertner and Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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64.

Paramount Communications, Inc. - 1994

CASENET, SOUTH-WESTERN COLLEGE PUBLISHING
Posted: 26 Mar 1997
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Paramount Communications Inc. - 1993

CASENET, SOUTH-WESTERN COLLEGE PUBLISHING
Posted: 29 Aug 1996
Steven N. Kaplan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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