This is one of the first efforts to systematically study attributes of women business owners
and their equity financing strategies. The study explored the factors associated with the use …

Equity capital fuels growth companies and yields high returns for investors. The process of
equity investment and ultimate harvesting of innovative companies has created significant …

This article discusses the questions and issues that prompted the founding of the Diana
Project, a multi-university research program aimed at identifying factors that support and …

Women have received a disproportionately low share of available venture capital in the
United States. This study provides the first overview of women decision makers in the …

Social network research has shown that tie strength affects information dissemination, and
that industry embeddedness aids firm performance. Strategy research has also considered …

Private equity is a critical asset that has become widely accepted as a key component of
investment portfolios. Its major virtue is that it delivers attractive risk-adjusted returns with …

Auf der Basis einer umfangreichen empirischen Studie identifiziert Carsten Baumgärtner
Ansatzpunkte für eine Verbesserung der Portfoliosteuerung von Venture Capital …

Although private equity is considered a maturing industry, its players have remained tiny
boutiques. We investigate the nature of the drivers and inhibitors of firm growth in the private …

Private equity firms—buyout as well as venture capital firms—are still not very well
understood (Gompers and Lerner, 2004; Metrick and Yasuda, 2010). In this chapter we …

Private equity has increasingly been used in portfolio for all types of investors as family
offices or ultra-high net worth individuals. Financial literature proposes different ways to …